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You always have an incredible luck with the birds :-0

The elands was a nice gift \O

0() the last chapter before a new take off to the Kruger \O


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As I discovered now summer is ideal for lots of birds! :yes:

Great eland sighting! \O \O


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How lush and green!

Lovely sunrises again Pumbaa, and interesting eating stories - from baboon to bugs! lol

Lovely big herd of eland! [O] O/\


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You are certainly a bird-magnet ^Q^ ^Q^ LOVE the Bee-eater w/ the dragonfly and the Paradise Whydah couple. O\/

BEAUTIFUL scenery, and more eland than I have ever seen in Kruger :shock: :shock: X#X


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Alf wrote: Thu Jan 31, 2019 6:08 am Again more stunning birds and another pretty sunrise ^Q^

Wow and then Eland O/\ O/\

The elands were a more than wonderful good bye gift \O
Lisbeth wrote: Thu Jan 31, 2019 7:38 am You always have an incredible luck with the birds :-0

The elands was a nice gift \O

0() the last chapter before a new take off to the Kruger \O
Finally I hopefully will manage to close this chapter before our departure and open a new one after our return \O


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Flutterby wrote: Thu Jan 31, 2019 7:41 am As I discovered now summer is ideal for lots of birds! :yes:

Great eland sighting! \O \O
Yes, but everything is lush and green and I do not want to know what we have missed already O**
Richprins wrote: Thu Jan 31, 2019 7:56 am How lush and green!

Lovely sunrises again Pumbaa, and interesting eating stories - from baboon to bugs! lol

Lovely big herd of eland! [O] O/\
Somehow both on our last full day :-? That herd of elands was a brilliant sighting ^Q^


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ExFmem wrote: Thu Jan 31, 2019 5:45 pm You are certainly a bird-magnet ^Q^ ^Q^ LOVE the Bee-eater w/ the dragonfly and the Paradise Whydah couple. O\/

BEAUTIFUL scenery, and more eland than I have ever seen in Kruger :shock: :shock: X#X
To spot those rarer antelopes is always amazing and for sure we simply have to stop for our beloved birdies O/\


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Most of them walked slowly away farer into the deeper bush but from time to time one looked curiously through the bushes into our direction.

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Also a lilac breasted roller flew by and as we already thought the eland would now disappear in the bush a couple of same returned

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and so we could enjoy them a bit longer and needless

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to say that we stayed with them until finally no one of them was longer to be seen. Also at this sighting we were the whole time the only car.

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That sighting was indeed a more than worthy ending of our trip but gladly still a couple of kilos had to be covered inside the park

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and the luck was still with us as the second entrance of the S56 was finally open and so we could at least drive at least a shorter part along one of our favourite roads and we soon came across zebras, waterbucks,

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banded mongoose,

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another fork tailed drongo

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A red billed hornbill

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and for sure lots of impalas

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for whom we definitely stopped and enjoyed their presence.

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A plum coloured starling female was then willing to pose

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as well as another jacobin cuckoo

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but then we already reached Babalala picnic spot where we stopped and stretched a bit our legs and this year we discovered some strange fruits / flowers hanging in a tree

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and also a very well camouflages grey hornbill.

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We headed forward now along the tar road as no other options in the far North but we noticed lot of zebras and more impalas.

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to be continued........


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We love driving the S56 and we love Babalala


Next trip to the bush??

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