Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)

[Richprins]

Kruger Sightings
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24h24 hours ago

10:30
2 Tsessebe and 2 bull elephant
S50, Grootvlei dam
Near Mopani
Vis 5/5
Tinged by Jorick

[Klipspringer]

Forum search for Grootvlei delivered a decent tusker: Ngodzi

25 August at Grootvlei dam (S50)

[Klipspringer]

From an old travel tale another sighting of Tsessebe ground-horning

https://www.africawild-forum.com/viewto ... 470#p66470

so.........

one full day left in the park (oh bother!!!!!!)

and i head off towards the capricorn loop

via the isdood desert and the grootvlei dam......





arrived at the dam just as morning prayers were taking place
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then a short sniff sniff in the air to determine the daily plan before their next stop.........
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[Alf]

Visited this dam only once and it was during August 2015

It was very dry

[Klipspringer]

And some lovely views of the dam in the wet season by Pumbaa. A keen photographer with a good lens can also do some tele zoom birding there

https://www.africawild-forum.com/viewto ... 91#p167366

It did not take long then we reached Grootvlei and there our drive on this road was finished as from here the road further North was finally closed but gladly we could pay a visit at the dam itself



which was extreme full and compared to the only one time we have ever been there where there only was a mud puddle left it looked so beautiful and totally different and simply lovely with so much water left.



On the couple of dead trees which stuck out of the water hundreds of cattle egrets could be noticed -



Would love to know at what this one was looking at?



Most of them where busy in cleaning their plumage and some of them really inspected everything very carefully one of them finished looking under its wings and then the next one took over and did the same thing.



For us funny to drive was right on the dam wall at least we did not see any sign that this is forbidden nor any barrier and noticed also other tire tracks on the ground and so we supposed that same was allowed. You are located far higher on that wall and one is having a brilliant overview without any disturbing vegetation.



At the end of the dam there was even a possibility of turning the car around and drive back on the one lane dam. A grey heron landed next to the cattle egrets



and so did an Egyptian goose.

[Richprins]

Nice research, Klippies!

[Lisbeth]

Kruger is really unique in its differences between the dry and the wet season. Personally, I prefer the green one It's a pleasure just to look at the scenery and it is not completely without animals, just have a look at Pumbaa's TTs, which are all from February

[Richprins]

Kruger Sightings
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19h19 hours ago

12:30pm
70 elephants drinking and bathing
S50, at Grootvlei waterhole, 7km south of Nyawutsi
Near Shingwedzi
Vis 4/5
Tinged by Peter & Mathias

[Flutterby]

Lovely to see big herds like that.

[Richprins]

Kruger Sightings
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23h23 hours ago

10:15 am
3 lion stationary
'Quite far away on south side of dam but clearly visible'
S50, grootvlei dam
Near Shingwedzi
3/5
Tinged by Lilli