kittykat23uk
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Hi folks, This trip report might take some time so I will post one day at a time.
November 1st 2008
Arrived in Maun after an overnight flight connecting in Johannesburgh. First birds were a Cape wagtail, grey headed sparrow and Pied Crow in Jo'burgh. Arriving at the Sedia Hotel, Maun, it took a while to sort our rooms out- the hotel having misjudged the number of single travellers in our group. I was given a chalet but told that another lady would be joining me. She never materialised. The pool looked a bit worse for wear (green and horrible) so contented myself with getting to know my travelling companions and doing a bit of birding around the lodge. I travelled with three other couples and three other guys. Our land operation was run by Wilderness Dawning, our guide's name was Solomon.
Birding around the lodge produced red-billed buffalo weaver, Blue waxbill, red-billed firefinch, village weaver, Southern masked and lesser masked weavers, Grey Lourie (Go-away bird), Marico and white bellied sunbirds, Meve's starling, Burchell's starling, Greater-blue eared starling, red-billed francolin, red-billed quela, Swamp Boubou, Grey-backed cameroptera, African paradise flycatcher, magpie shrike, Hartlaub's babbler, Arrow-marked babbler, African red-eyed bulbul, Yellow-billed hornbill, Lilac-breasted roller, red-eyed, cape turtle and laughing doves. Blacksmith plover, african open bill stork, white backed duck, south african shelduck and our first african jacanas down by the Thamalakane river. First bird of prey was a yellow billed kite.
November 1st 2008
Arrived in Maun after an overnight flight connecting in Johannesburgh. First birds were a Cape wagtail, grey headed sparrow and Pied Crow in Jo'burgh. Arriving at the Sedia Hotel, Maun, it took a while to sort our rooms out- the hotel having misjudged the number of single travellers in our group. I was given a chalet but told that another lady would be joining me. She never materialised. The pool looked a bit worse for wear (green and horrible) so contented myself with getting to know my travelling companions and doing a bit of birding around the lodge. I travelled with three other couples and three other guys. Our land operation was run by Wilderness Dawning, our guide's name was Solomon.
Birding around the lodge produced red-billed buffalo weaver, Blue waxbill, red-billed firefinch, village weaver, Southern masked and lesser masked weavers, Grey Lourie (Go-away bird), Marico and white bellied sunbirds, Meve's starling, Burchell's starling, Greater-blue eared starling, red-billed francolin, red-billed quela, Swamp Boubou, Grey-backed cameroptera, African paradise flycatcher, magpie shrike, Hartlaub's babbler, Arrow-marked babbler, African red-eyed bulbul, Yellow-billed hornbill, Lilac-breasted roller, red-eyed, cape turtle and laughing doves. Blacksmith plover, african open bill stork, white backed duck, south african shelduck and our first african jacanas down by the Thamalakane river. First bird of prey was a yellow billed kite.