{"id":4773,"date":"2016-03-30T12:37:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T12:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duffssuitcase.com\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2016-03-30T13:19:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:19:04","slug":"green-season-hwange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/duffssuitcase.com\/green-season-hwange\/","title":{"rendered":"Green season in Hwange"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Travelling to the bush at the tail end of rainy season means you really have to get into birds if you aren\u2019t already. In the dry season in Hwange National Park, many thousands of elephants in huge herds \u2013 just part of a population of 75 000 \u2013 can be seen, along with herds of buffalo, prides of lions, cheetah leopards and wild dogs. The park has no natural water source and so when it\u2019s dry, the animals are forced to congregate around the man-made waterholes fed by boreholes.<\/p>\n
Rainy season is a different story. The bush is thick, green and lush, water is plentiful, and the tens of thousands of elephants and other animals tend to stick in the middle of the park, where there are no roads and they don\u2019t have to contend with being gawped at by camera-wielding safari tourists. This beautiful emerald green time of year is, however, amazing for bird life \u2013 especially for migratory birds who\u2019ve flown down from Europe for the summer like Germans who have beach houses on the Atlantic Seaboard in Cape Town. Appreciating the beauty and abundance of the rainy season is all about being a twitcher.<\/p>\n