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While out on a game drive this afternoon from Xaranna tented camp, we had the most unbelievable drive with elephants bulls, giraffe, Red lechwe, impalas and zebras, all this in the most relaxing and beautiful surroundings. As the sun was starting to go down and we were heading back to camp on the side of a reed we stopped for some Black Smith Lapwings...
Posted: Xaranna by Mark Shaw, Date: 16 October 2008
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Because of the location of the Xaranna tented camp, birding is so easy and enjoyable just form the comfort of the lodge its self. The morning birds bring to life another day in the delta, with the songs of the White-Browed Robin-Chat and the hooting of the African Scops owl silently in the back ground dawn has broken. Other birds in camp are the...
Posted: Xaranna by Mark Shaw, Date: 15 October 2008
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While driving along the banks of the timbavati river bed, there was a strange call that i had not heard befor on Ngala. Reconizing the call to belong to a hornbill that i had not seen yet,i got very excited and started zoneing in on the call, i found it a Crowned hornbill and for a few more minuets watched the bird flying along the banks of the river...
Posted: Ngala by Mark Shaw, Date: 5 July 2008
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On my way to go and drop off some geust's from the Ngala Walking Safaris Camp we came across this Secretarybird been harrased by a pair of Swainson's spurfowls. Often when smaller birds llike the spurfowls attack bigger birds its normaly indefence of them selves or of young that are hidden away some were in the grass. So stopping to watch what was going...
Posted: Ngala by Mark Shaw, Date: 9 June 2008
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We intended to stroll for a a few hours, but the game just kept coming and we eventually got back for brunch! 3 White Rhino picked up our scent and as we retreated they followed us to each termite mound we were using as cover - very exciting. We left hoping to relax, but ahead on a game trail, 3 cheetah appeared, casually looked at us and headed off! On...
Posted: Ngala by Mark Shaw, Date: 20 March 2008
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The past month on Ngala has been unbelievable the game viewing has just never come to an end with so much happening around us. It all started at around the beginning of last month December 2007 and is still going on now, just a very brief summary of what we have been seen on our very special properties Ngala. Wild dogs, cheetahs, leopards, herds of...
Posted: Ngala by Mark Shaw, Date: 3 January 2008
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With the game viewing been so good on Ngala at the moment on the afternoon of the 23 of December my guests had seen everything and had also visited Mala Mala and Londolozi, so we decided to just take a slow drive up to one of our dams and sit there and watch the sun go down in the most absolute pristine African bush. On arrival to the dam there were some...
Posted: Ngala by Mark Shaw, Date: 23 December 2007
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Tacking a walk through the African bush is always an adrenalin rush, never knowing what you going to see. Well on this specific morning we sat out for our 3-4 hour walk and not even out the camp Andrew my tracker stops me calls me back and points towards a old stump between tent 1 and 2. In the center of this old Knob thorn stump is a hole which always...
Posted: Ngala by Mark Shaw, Date: 3 November 2007
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This afternoon on game drive we set out looking for lions and on the way down to the river were the lions have been seen lately and have been rather active round that area, we came across a bird party and identifying a few good birds and enjoying the feeding frenzy we noticed a Fork-Tailed Drongo acting very strange and was giving off its very distinctive...
Posted: Ngala by Mark Shaw, Date: 13 July 2007
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The request for this mornings walk was a giant eagle owl or also now know as a verreaux’s eagle owl , not impossible but its all about the right timing and we had timed it perfectly this morning and knowing that they are very territorial and stay in the same we decided to go by there at the end of our walk and see if there was any thing there. Andrew my...
Posted: Ngala by Mark Shaw, Date: 3 July 2007
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