Has a good hour’s drive down through Mpraeso to determine presence of Wood Warbler through point count surveys, the site chosen through a predictive model which determines the areas likely to support Wood Warbler. Sure enough after some impressive off road driving on some rough tracks, and over a few rickety wooden bridges, Chris spotted one.
The plan was to check out another site afterwards but unfortunately the car broke down, but no matter –this is Africa, a local man with a woolly bobble hat saw our difficulties and mended the car right there at the roadside. Once fixed the journey down the rough track continued (gingerly) but it was too late to do a second survey so we contented ourselves with trying to catch some of the Nightjars that sit on the sandy tracks near the guesthouse. Unfortunately they were just a bit too twitchy on the windy moonlit night.
The plan was to check out another site afterwards but unfortunately the car broke down, but no matter –this is Africa, a local man with a woolly bobble hat saw our difficulties and mended the car right there at the roadside. Once fixed the journey down the rough track continued (gingerly) but it was too late to do a second survey so we contented ourselves with trying to catch some of the Nightjars that sit on the sandy tracks near the guesthouse. Unfortunately they were just a bit too twitchy on the windy moonlit night.
Above: The car being fixed
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