{"id":1062,"date":"2016-12-09T17:14:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T23:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2020-09-11T17:12:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T22:12:54","slug":"namibia-birding-part-2-swakopmund-to-damaraland-november-7-8-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Birding-Part 2 Swakopmund to Damaraland November 7-8, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

On November 7, (day 5 of our tour) we drove from Swakopmund to the beautifully situated Hohenstein Lodge in the Erongo Mountains near Spitzkoppe.<\/p>\n

The day yielded several excellent sightings, some along the way and and others near our lodge:<\/p>\n

<\/b>Pearl-spotted Owlet<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/b>Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rosy-faced Lovebird<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hartlaub\u2019s Spurfowl<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ruppell\u2019s Parrot<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"ruppells-parrot\" <\/b><\/p>\n

Elephant Shrew (now called Western Rock Sengi)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"elephant-shrew\"<\/p>\n

On the 8th  <\/sup>(day 6 of our tour) we drove from Hohenstein Lodge via the mighty Brandberg, Namibia\u2019s highest mountain, to the Rustig Lodge, located on private farmland in Damaraland.<\/p>\n

Along the way we found, after much effort, a Herero Chat which is near endemic.  We also saw<\/p>\n

<\/b>Violet Wood Hoopoe<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bearded Woodpecker<\/strong> <\/b><\/p>\n

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Lesser Masked Weavers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Northen Black Korhaan<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"no-black-korhan\"<\/p>\n

Red-crested Korhaan<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"red-crested-korhaan\"<\/p>\n

Namoqua Sandgrouse<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"nomoqua-sandgrouse\"<\/p>\n

Along the way we witnessed a case of animal abuse of a team of skinny donkeys being lashed at top speed along the road in the noon-heat.  Also, to our surprise, several women along the way in colorful traditional garb, excluding tops.<\/p>\n

One of the most enjoyable episodes of the trip was a night-drive through the farmland around the Lodge.  This night drive yielded good views of a few night birds and several animals that I had hoped, but not expected, to see in Africa:<\/p>\n

Aardvarks (2 of them)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"aardvark-2\"<\/p>\n

\"aarkwark-1\"<\/p>\n

Aardwolf<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"aardwolf\"<\/p>\n

The next morning, November 9th<\/sup>, (day 7 of our tour) we headed for our major destination in Namibia, the huge and game-rich Etosha National Park, where we would spend the next 3 nights.<\/p>\n

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On November 7, (day 5 of our tour) we drove from Swakopmund to the beautifully situated Hohenstein Lodge in the Erongo Mountains near Spitzkoppe. The day yielded several excellent sightings, some along the way and and others near our lodge: Pearl-spotted … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-international-birding","category-travel","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}