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“Pic of the Week”, November 21, 2014. Scarlet-Breasted Bee-Eater, Chobe National Park, Botswana
One of the most beautiful birds I’ve seen in years is the scarlet-breasted bee-eater. These birds were quite common in Botswana, especially in Chobe National Park, and they’d often flash by us pursuing insects (they really are bee eaters).
This particular bird was a poser. He sat in a branch near our vehicle while on a game-drive and let us take as many pictures of him as we wanted. Then, in a flash of color, he was gone, although I got a decent photo of him on his way out.
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Nov 20, 2014
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“Pic of the Week”, December 6, 2013. African Wild Dogs, Chobe National Park, Botswana
One of the rarest animals I’ve ever encountered in nature is the African Wild Dog. While on safari in Chobe National Park our guide took us to a pack of them living near the park boundary and we spent a half hour quietly studying them. They reminded me of their namesake, domesticated dogs — sleeping in the warm afternoon, pups tugging at each other and the parents not wanting to be bothered by them. The normality of the scene belied how uncommon seeing these dogs is. No one knows exactly how many of them survive, but by some estimates there are less than 5000 wild dogs left in Africa (about the same number as black rhinos).
Also known as the Cape …
Dec 5, 2013
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Chobe National Park: “In Chobe We Trust”
Having completed five great days on safari in the Okavango Delta, we caught a tiny bush plane (Safari Air) on an almost non-existent sand strip and spent two hours flying to Kasane, a small town in northern Botswana near the entrance to Chobe National Park. The flight took us over the myriad of small pools and channels in the Delta, the Kalahari desert and finally towards the forested northern part of the country where we could, in the distance, see the Chobe River. We were greeted at the airport by our guide, Disho, from ‘And Beyond‘, our safari company. Our gear was sequestered into …
Tagged Botswana, Chobe National Park, Chobe River, Safari, wildlife
