Sunday, July 3, 2011

Sunday in Gabs



White-backed Vulture

Matsieng Footprints our 3rd stop



Golden-breasted Bunting


Namaqua Dove


Flock of Red-faced Mousebirds

Mousebirds


another Mousebird


Oodi Weavers our 2nd stop









Scott and I with our purchases



Mokolodi, our 1st stop










Common Duiker














We started out the morning going to Mokolodi, of course we didn't see any rhino. After that we stopped by Oodi weavers. I bought 1 tapestry that was Botswana colors and it looked like it had a H on it. Scott got a few different things. Thenwe went to Matsiend. I have been there so many times so I didn't listen to the guide. I just took pictures of birds while Scott and Pollen had the tour.


Booka Dam

Booka Dam

Pied Kingfisher with fish





Scared Ibis



Sacred Ibis



African Spoonbill



White-faced Ducks



Flamingo's(the cause of our problems!)









Capped Wheatear *new bird*



Oh no!! we are stuck!



my hands after digging out the tire



Pollen trying to push



poor truck!



catching the donkeys



trying to pull out the truck with donkeys



still stuck but beautiful sunset






Scott, Pollen and I went to Booka to look for birds on our way to drop Pollen off at home. Everything was going good until we saw a flock of flamingos on ther side of the water. None of us knew how to get across the dam but thoughtwe could go allthe way around the lake to get to them. We were making good progress or so we thought. I was not going close to the water but somebody say the road was this way. I wasn't followingthe road so i went where they told me andthe ground got very wet and we got stuck in the mud. We tried everything to get out. Some locals were near and they came to help.We had about 6people plus the 3 of us trying to get us out.They even tried to have donkeys pull us out. In the end, after dark they found a tow truck and they pulled us out. We found out while we were stuck that you couldn't get all the way around the lake anyway. There was a river that fed into it and we wouldn'thave been able to get across. All that, stuck for4-5 hours and we didnt'see the flamingos close up.



Gaborone Game Reserve



Red-billed Teals


Tawney-flanked Prinia


Male Impala


Eland


Eland



More Eland






Brown-hooded Kingfisher




Crested Barbet


Brown-hooded Kingfisher


Brown-hooded Kingfisher



Scott andI went to Gabs Game reserve in the morning and drove around for awhile while the others went to Sun CIty for the weekend