From Floods and Surprises in River beds

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Such a cute naughty busbaby ^Q^ ^Q^

Another cutie is the thirsty tinyphant O/\ O/\

The S28 is a great road \O
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Lovely little bushbaby...didn't know they also steal! :shock: :shock: :shock:


That hyena looks as though it has quite a nasty skin flap wound on the cheek! O-/

Interesting giraffe silhouette, Pumbaa! ^Q^


I haven't been to that dam for decades, interesting you say it is still worth it. \O

My favourite is the jackal! :-0


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The bushbaby is so cute!! \O

Some lovely pics! ^Q^


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Lovely Pics all round ..You had a great trip it seems. The veld is looking good . Your 'European Swallows' are in fact Wire Tailed Swallows ..Great pic


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A bushbaby :-0 Looks cuddly! 0/0

Love that ellie photo where the little one swishes its tail. I can't tell you why…
maybe it make the little one looks so wannabe grown up :-? No idea really, but sweet lol


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Alf wrote: Sun May 19, 2019 2:47 pm Scary when the bushbaby gets used to people and even jump onto your shoulder. They are usually very shy.
Same was still shy and use Timon's shoulder only as spring board ;-)
Lisbeth wrote: Sun May 19, 2019 2:52 pm Such a cute naughty busbaby ^Q^ ^Q^

Another cutie is the thirsty tinyphant O/\ O/\

The S28 is a great road \O
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This year the S28 was a bit quiet but I guess it was because of the high grass there but nevertheless still one of our favourites O/\
Richprins wrote: Sun May 19, 2019 5:14 pm Lovely little bushbaby...didn't know they also steal! :shock: :shock: :shock:


That hyena looks as though it has quite a nasty skin flap wound on the cheek! O-/

Interesting giraffe silhouette, Pumbaa! ^Q^


I haven't been to that dam for decades, interesting you say it is still worth it. \O

My favourite is the jackal! :-0
The jackal was hard to discover when hiding in the high grass but gladly same presented itself on the road O\/


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Flutterby wrote: Mon May 20, 2019 3:03 pm The bushbaby is so cute!! \O

Some lovely pics! ^Q^
Indeed one of the cutest thing I ever saw \O
Peter Betts wrote: Mon May 20, 2019 5:11 pm Lovely Pics all round ..You had a great trip it seems. The veld is looking good . Your 'European Swallows' are in fact Wire Tailed Swallows ..Great pic
Yes, besides the few kilos Close to Crocodile Bridge the total park was dense and green O/\
Mel wrote: Mon May 20, 2019 9:02 pm A bushbaby :-0 Looks cuddly! 0/0

Love that ellie photo where the little one swishes its tail. I can't tell you why…
maybe it make the little one looks so wannabe grown up :-? No idea really, but sweet lol


That tinyphant was also such a cutie \O


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We discovered white backed vultures

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and masses of zebras

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who came from a huge natural waterhole along that road

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and because of the water there we do always see here lots of other animals as well this year many wildebeests together with youngsters were hanging around that waterhole as well.

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Finally we could turn into the short road leading to Duke’s waterhole where we were delighted to see the waterhole filled up nicely and secondly about the birds who were around such as common waxbills indeed a bird we so far did not that spot that often

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and a cute spotted flycatcher really posed nicely for us.

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We really spent quite a while here under a shady tree and watched the birdies and in the distance the zebras and we were about to leave already when we noticed a movement on the ground – a water monitor made its way behind the waterhole.

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Next stop was then on another pond along the S130 where we spotted a pair of Egyptian goose on a large rock in the middle of the waterhole

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as well as turtles and another sandpiper. Meanwhile although it was still quite early it was already unbearably hot in the sun and so we only got a glimpse of a sleeping lioness in the shade whilst riding along the tar road

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besides another spotted flycatcher we really did not see anything else

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until we reached the Lower Sabie causeway where a lot of hippos could be seen and photographed

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and we then were once again delighted by the presence of quite a number of red bishops

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starting their display show

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as well as in plushed up form.

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As the reeds were quite high and thick this year for sure a lot of masked weavers were also around busy in either refurbishing or building new nests

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and we once again had a fantastic time in observing all the birds who came by.

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From time to time a couple of red billed queleas became lost between the weavers and red bishops

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but we finally could not get enough from all the different colourful feathered friends

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and we had indeed problems in drag us away

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as the red bishops as well weavers posed in so many different poses

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but finally nature was also calling and so we made a larger break at Lower Sabie with the delicious muffins and iced freezos from Mug & Bean.

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to be continued.....


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Thank you Nature for all the pretty birds lol lol

Beautiful colourful photos ^Q^ ^Q^

I saw the lion pic before reading the text and could not make out what on earth it was =O:

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