Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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button quail
2 klipsringer, seen nicely on hillside
green pigeons
The scat of black rhino is coarser and has bigger twigs (size of a lead pencil, maybe even to the
size of your little finger) cut at 45 degrees angle. Seen in midden.
We reached an upper water hole
hippo and calf; we walked round on the rocks to see her
baboons
vultures drinking on the other side of the pool
pied wagtails, common in East Africa, but this is their lower limit of distribution
water dikkup
3 water buck
On the trail back to the bakkie:
porcupine quill, quite sizeable
3 water buck
5-6 kudu
There are no Thomson's gazelles, no Grant's gazelles in Kruger.
zebra
On the drive back to camp, in the dark:
nightjars in the road and flying up, we saw 12-15 of them.
scrub hare. Seen 12-15 times running.
July 18, Tuesday.
We got into the bakkie and drove a distance for the morning walk. In the first few minutes of the
walk, there were jackals calling.
giant eagle owl, flew from perch.
The sound of wildebeest is a grunt that sounds something like "knoo" and hence the other name
"gnu".
10 wildebeest alarmed and running. Nice scene.
lilac breasted roller, rolling flight
parrots spp.
communal spiders, make a web something like a tentworm caterpillar.
zebra, seen in close
giraffe
20 zebra, close in
We found fresh white rhino track and shortly they decided to see if they could track it, so we
reversed our directions.
civet midden. With lots of milliped skeleton fragments. Civets can eat them even though they
contain strychnine.
Eventually, we gave up on the rhino tracking and had a breakfast stop. Just as we were leaving,