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Walk in the area of Duwisib Castle |
We do without lunch break again. Instead of that we explore the closer environment of the castle. We pass a little café (where a tray with apple pie is being raided just at the moment) and then we arrive at an ostrich enclosure. While the male is examining us attentively, the female is sitting in the nest. Some steps farther uphill we see two more ostrich females.
![(African) red-eyed bulbul [Pycnonotus nigricans]](../../Duwisib_Castle/Spaziergang/namibia_0477.jpg "(African) red-eyed bulbul [Pycnonotus nigricans]")
On the way to the top the male accompanies us. No wonder, because the feeding troughs are located in the upper part of the enclosure. Two of the females come to us to the fence, too. That's an occasion to receive some wonderful portraits of the ostriches. What a pity that we can't return the favour, that means: the ostriches go away empty-handed, just like the ducks and gooses, which gaggle around in the enclosure.
On the way back we discover some little birds with black heads and red eyes. These are red-eyed bulbul, which don't seem to have problems with the scrubby and prickly bushes and the agaves.
A short time later the midday break is finished. Having walked across gravel slopes, we reach the next aim of the journey: the Hammerstein Lodge.
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