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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swissboy" data-source="post: 3519224" data-attributes="member: 4926">Lake Mburo NPDay fifteen was our last full observation-day. We spent the morning on a game walk, and the afternoon was mainly used for a boat tour plus some birding and game watching later on from the car.Lake Mburo NP is the smallest of the east African savanna parks, according to our local ranger-guide. The park also has more intensive joint use of the grazing lands by local people than we had seen before. So zebras, antelopes, warthogs and buffalos can - at times - be seen grazing next to a herd of cattle. With their so impressive horns, these look just like another wild game species. :eat:Encountering zebras, antelopes and buffalo not from the car but on foot is a somewhat different experience. Particularly so when our armed ranger leader told us there was also a single male lion in the park. Apparently, that lion had found its way to the park on its own, moving in via a suitable corridor from not all that far Tanzania. The mammals we encountered were usually curious but then went their own way. If not, our ranger functioned as a policeman, in one case telling the warthog to go in a different direction by using sign language just like what we are used for directing traffic. Quite a funny experience for us, actually. The head of that warthog can just barely be seen sticking out of the grass in the upper right of the picture in front of the far trees.The game walk finally provided good looks at Ross's Turaco, my top-priority target after the shoebill. For some reason, this not all that rare species had eluded us so far. We had by then only heard it a few times. In the evening, we also had Bare-faced Go-away Birds, another not really rare member of the turaco family that we had not seen till then.The boat tour showed us African Finfoot quite nicely. That was also one of my top target species. We missed, however, the other two target species, the Papyrus Gonolek and the White-backed Night Heron. A morning tour would probably have been better for the gonolek, and the best area for that night heron was not accessible for our boat due to the low water level.</blockquote>

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