Last Day and Home

Our last morning in Namibia. Our main target for the day was Rockrunner so we made a walk up and along the Mountain Trail at first light. There was little to be heard or seen at first but a short burst of tape quickly induced several birds into song with one male coming to within about 30m to investigate. Having had this success we made our way down for breakfast with a Pearl-spotted Owlet, Rosy-faced Lovebirds, White-browed and Kalahari scrub-robins, Mariqua Sunbirds, several Grey-backed Camaroptera and Brown-crowned Tchagra en route. We checked out but made a short stop along the entrance track which amazingly produced two Hartlaub’s Spurfowl crossing the road and wandering around in the roadside scrub.

We then made the three hour drive to Windhoek with little time for further birding although we did see several White-backed Vultures, a Black-chested Snake-eagle and lots of Little Swifts from the car. Several hillsides were on fire and appeared to be of natural origin. On arrival at Windhoek we were told that our departure was delayed, apparently due to high runway temperatures (33.6C) and this resulted in a hectic and fraught transfer at Johannesburg Airport but we eventually made the flight on time and arrived via Zurich back at Heathrow at 0800hrs on 7^th.