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New bird species makes 120 species for our list

With the fantastic rain we are experiencing this year, we have had a dramatic increase in birds. So far only one new species for our lodge list has been found: A Wattled Starling. This brings our lodge list up to a grand 120 species

Posted: Sossusvlei by Vernon Swanepoel, Date: 7 March 2008

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New bird species

Since the rains started I have seen two new bird species for our list, Black-throated Canary and Common Swift. This brings our total birdlist to 119!

Posted: Sossusvlei by Vernon Swanepoel, Date: 3 February 2008

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Breaking of the dry season

Despite not having any rain in October till December, everything started to change now from the end of January. It is to early to say if it will be a good year, but at least the rain has come. The late dry season was particularly dry this year, with even Oryx and zebras dying. However, it has been a good time for our leopard sightings. In total, we have...

Posted: Sossusvlei by Vernon Swanepoel, Date: 3 February 2008

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Snakes

With the breaking of the rain their has been a movement of snakes around. We have seen Black Spitting Cobras, one Cape Cobra, and various small special snakes around in the last two or three days.

Posted: Sossusvlei by Vernon Swanepoel, Date: 2 February 2008

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Secretery bird

This was the first sighting of Secretary bird at Sossusvlei Mountain Lodge in many years.

Posted: Sossusvlei by Ronney Tsowaseb, Date: 2 January 2008

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A giraffe search turns up leopard

I left the lodge with my five guests, heading to draaihoek to look for giraffe. After some time we had had a couple of nice sightings including some mountain zebras, but still had not found the giraffe. Still looking for them, we came across leopard tracks in the road. The went in and out of the road for a while, and soon I saw that it had killed an...

Posted: Sossusvlei by Vitalis Chingo, Date: 28 November 2007

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Two leopards

Yesterday night Vitalis and I were taking a group to Draaihoek. We had a good sighting of the giraffe and moved on. While I had stopped to set up my drinks stop, Vitalis was passing the Draaihoek waterhole. He saw two leopards which went and sat up on a rock overlooking the waterhole. We quickly abandoned drinks to go and join him. This was the third...

Posted: Sossusvlei by Vernon Swanepoel, Date: 13 October 2007

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Zebra dies from failed birth, and feeds vultures

A couple of days ago I was driving with some guests about 14km south of the Lodge. We saw a zebra with staining down it's back legs, and what appeared to be something sticking out of it's back end. I contacted the park warden to have a look at it. When he went out two days ago, the zebra had died. We went out last night, and found the carcass. Nine Lappet...

Posted: Sossusvlei by Vernon Swanepoel, Date: 14 September 2007

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Common Fiscal pins lizard

While out on an afternoon drive we saw a Common Fiscal. While just giving the guests general information about the bird, I mentioned the fact that Common Fiscals sometimes pin their prey on thorns. As we started driving on, the Common Fiscal came flying past us, this time with a lizard (probably a Spotted Desert Lizard) in its beak. It flew past us, and...

Posted: Sossusvlei by Nestor Nghuunduka, Date: 30 August 2007

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Worthogs at Sossusvlei area

An adult warthog with several young was seen running near the river bed. This was the second time that I saw warthogs in this area, and these are the only two sightings we know of to date in the park. Warthogs are very seldom found anywhere in the Namib Desert.

Posted: Sossusvlei by Nestor Nghuunduka, Date: 27 August 2007

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