I am running a course for italian bush lovers that already followed a first guiding course and wanted to have a bit more knowledge focused on the greenest time of the year.
The park at this time is just awesome, everything is lush, flowers everywhere and still sooooo many elephants. We even saw a good number of cats.
Birding was good, I enjoyed the breeding colors and shapes. The Southern red bishops, the White winged widowbirds and many others were doing their best to impress the girls and it was a show.
We saw a lesser moorhen nesting in a thick bush plunging in a small waterhole, we even managed to see the chicks even if they were so hidden that it was quite difficult.
Black coucals were in w7 area again, Broad billed roller were often perching along the roads, Square taled nightjar usually the last sighting on the way back to camp and even the striking Eurasian hobby showed itself in the tortilis forest.
Cuckoos were flying fast through the bushes and sometimes perching and giving time to the students to identify them. The european cuckoo that we seldomly see in europe was one of them as the Diderick.
Took me 20 minutes to get the secretive Sprosser to show itself. It was singing from inside a bush in camp but ... maaaaaannnnn!!!! it did not want to come out.
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