Namibia - Day 9

Etosha National Park

Travelled thru the Park from W to E. Saw a pride of lions - 2 males and 3 females, hartebeest, giraffe, Laughing dove, Vultures, Secretary birds, Spotted hyena, Little green, South African shell duck, giraffe, oryx, impala - male (spiral horns) and female (no horns)

Guinea fowl close up: 

Guinea towel: 

Herd of springbok: 

We managed to see a h spotted hyaena in the distance and a few vultures as there had been a recent kill, probably by lions, which was too far away to see. There is a pecking order and the vultures come after the hyaena and were sitting in trees away from the kill site. White-backed vulture: 

Wildebeest: 

Lappet-faced vulture: 

Wildebeest on the run: 

Southern yellow-billed hornbill: 

An easily recognised bird (from the book we bought) because of its forked tail. The forked tail drongo:

Red- billed hornbill: 

Male lion: 

Salt pan: 

Giraffe: 

Southern Oryx:

Ostrich:

Ostrich:

Ostrich: 

Black-winged stilts: 

Two black-backed Jackals eating a recent kill close to the road. We figured it might have been hit by a vehicle and staggered a few metres before dying because jackals aren’t usually first on the scene. 

We were lucky to see a herd of illusive Red Hartebeest: 

On a 4x4 night game drive they used infrared lights to detect animals without scaring them. 

It started out well: 

Our driver wasn’t great though. He belted around at speed and then slammed his foot on the brakes and wondered why the animal we’d seen had disappeared. 

Black and white photo of a Small spotted Genet which is like a cross between a cat and a mongoose. It nested in the hollow of this tree: 

Elephants fighting at a waterhole: 

They were still fighting when we left:

Stay: Namutoni Restcamp in Park