At the beginning of May 2011 I was driving in the Namib north of Swakopmund in search of Gray's Lark. The aim was to get some good photographs of these birds. I was following a track well-known to me when suddenly a Gray's Lark flew up from right in front of the vehicle. I had not seen it as it was too well camouflaged. It pretended to be hurt by dragging its wing and it looked around to draw my attention. How lucky can you get I thought and reversed the bakkie to get where it flew off to search for the inevitable nest.