Please note this is a lengthy report, but not detailed.

Day 1
Our first day took us directly to the Phalaborwa Gate where we were to enter the park. Upon entering the park we were entertained by a Lesser Masked Weaver who didn’t like the intruding male whom he could see in my bull-bar.

At the entrance gate we also saw many Diderick’s Cuckoos chance their luck at laying eggs in the weaver nests.
From the gate we went via Sable Dam and found an African Hoopoe feeding its young through a hole in the ground. This was the first time I had seen a nest in the ground, although, Robert’s does say they will nest in holes in the ground as well as termite mounds.