The heat is rising and water levels are dropping. This is the time of year when the tension starts building in the bush, as resources dwindle to meagre levels yet the anticipation of the coming rains slowly starts to increase. Traditionally we get our first rain in October, so if the animals that are holding on through the last grip of the dry season can wait for just one more month, the bush should be bursting to life about them. The impala ewes are all starting to show signs of being heavily pregnant, as are the wildebeest cows, zebra mares so for them in particular the rains can’t come soon enough.
