Started the day as yesterday: Out before dawn for a few hours before returning for breakfast and to pack. Not as exciting as yesterday but clear skies led to a beautiful sunrise. As well as the usual mammals, we also saw a Golden Jackal. We then saw the first Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse of the trip before we found several hundred Sandgrouse drinking at a pool. It consisting mainly of Yellow-throated Sandgrouse, but a few Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse as well.
After breakfast, whist the car was being loaded, Sam managed a quick swim, and Tom found a Red-fronted Tinkerbird (which I missed). We then took a slow drive eastwards out of the Serengeti, seeing more mammals (including Lions with cubs), before stopping for lunch at the gates as on our way in. A Spotted Thick-knee was found in the plans, making it the last new bird for the Serengeti.
We then made our way back to the Ngorongoro crater, again admiring the views. I also made a few stops there to try and call in Grey-capped Warbler (which I’d fully expecting to see) but failed. Then out of Ngorongoro and back to the Twiga, where we arrived at dusk. It was then just a case of packing for the plane and a day bag for our last day. All a bit sad really, as we didn’t want to leave, but we’d had an amazing few days in the Serengeti.
Edit (16/11/2011): This is an Agama species, probably a female Mwanza Flat-headed Agama…
