Bahati is a privately-owned game farm set in superb bush environment in the heart of Zululand, close to the town of Hluhluwe. The camp sites are nestled in among the trees and boasted a nesting Grey-tit Flycatcher just above us and a very vociferous and elusive Nicator that called all day. Several sites have their own lapas next to them and we were fortunate to have one of these. Mike and I went up on the Wednesday to scout out the area and plan our walks etc as we had not been there before. The weather had other ideas and Thursday dawned wet and cold, so we did our birding from under the shelter of the Lapa plus a couple of forays out into the surrounding bush between showers. Later in the afternoon we did a drive around which proved challenging as part of the property is sticky black mud and…
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