I brought my last guests to the airstrip today. We started early, our target... leopard. I think we looked in every tree in sokwe and ikuka forest but not even the shadow of the spotted cat.
We looked and looked and looked again but nothing. We had breakfast at w7 under the sycamore figs and I explained to guest about the specific fig wasp that pollinates this majestic tree laying eggs inside the fruit. I cut a fig to show them better that it is a fruit and a flower together and to show the the dead wasp that are many often found inside. To my pure joy instead of a dead wasp many alive ones started flying off, the fig wasp with the short ovopositor, the parasitic wasps, metallic green with a long ovopositor and the second parasitic wasp still with the long ovopositor but pale yellow.
They would climb on my fingers and there stretch the wings and unfold them getting ready to fly... it was a stunning show.
After that we spotted a huge herd of buffs close to w7, they were all in the river bed, a wonderful black cloud moving towards water.
Lions were more difficult but at least we had a couple of sighting even if a bit far from the road.
Now I handing the camp over to my friend Steve, we had a nice drive together in the afternoon, no cats but nice light.
We looked and looked and looked again but nothing. We had breakfast at w7 under the sycamore figs and I explained to guest about the specific fig wasp that pollinates this majestic tree laying eggs inside the fruit. I cut a fig to show them better that it is a fruit and a flower together and to show the the dead wasp that are many often found inside. To my pure joy instead of a dead wasp many alive ones started flying off, the fig wasp with the short ovopositor, the parasitic wasps, metallic green with a long ovopositor and the second parasitic wasp still with the long ovopositor but pale yellow.
They would climb on my fingers and there stretch the wings and unfold them getting ready to fly... it was a stunning show.
After that we spotted a huge herd of buffs close to w7, they were all in the river bed, a wonderful black cloud moving towards water.
Lions were more difficult but at least we had a couple of sighting even if a bit far from the road.
Now I handing the camp over to my friend Steve, we had a nice drive together in the afternoon, no cats but nice light.
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