Another long morning drive, I was trying to find a cheetah because Manu never saw one, I tried but with no luck, we were more lucky on the lions side: a big male was waiting us by the side of the road and later on a small pride of female were found eating a warthog but in such thick grass that we could not see properly.
Birding was good as usual, wit good sighting of saddle bill stork, we also saw two wonderful herds of elands.
In the afternoon we went down to mbagi, there was no game around but we had a nice surprise when we entered the forest. While we were listening to the repeated song of the grey headed bush shrike a huge bull elephant appeared from the corner of the road. The bull was standing in the middle of the track, fenced in by two walls of long guinea grass.
He had only one tusk but one of the biggest I have seen here so far. It was a bit dodgy because there was no way we could reverse and he kept walking in the middle of the road. We got charged a couple of times but nothing serious and b the way there was little we could do so we enjoyed the show.
After dinner Mustafa spotted a white lipped snake that had just caught a guttural toad. The latter had inflated his body with air as a defensive mechanism and the snake could hold but not swallow it.
Eventually I disturbed the snake stupidly and by mistake and he left the grab and swiftly disappeared into the grass.
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