From Floods and Surprises in River beds
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Re: From Floods and Surprises in River beds
Great to see action shots of the wildebeests
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Re: From Floods and Surprises in River beds
Catching up
A wonderful start with so many bird varieties
You guys also got a black-crowned night heron. I’m yet to see 1.
Junior rhino are becoming a rare sighting in KNP sadly
Nice male lion near the S120 intersection
Sjoe, there are plenty more birds around in the summer months
The Vurhami pride seems to love hanging out at the dam.
The vervet and mongoose interaction is very cool
Lesser bush baby jumping on Timon’s shoulder
A great lion sighting on the S28
Biyamiti viewpoint is a fantastic spot to sit and relax
Your pics are excellent again
A wonderful start with so many bird varieties
You guys also got a black-crowned night heron. I’m yet to see 1.
Junior rhino are becoming a rare sighting in KNP sadly
Nice male lion near the S120 intersection
Sjoe, there are plenty more birds around in the summer months
The Vurhami pride seems to love hanging out at the dam.
The vervet and mongoose interaction is very cool
Lesser bush baby jumping on Timon’s shoulder
A great lion sighting on the S28
Biyamiti viewpoint is a fantastic spot to sit and relax
Your pics are excellent again
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Rather nice sightings once again!
Not sure why, but I do like those juvvie ground hornbills
Not sure why, but I do like those juvvie ground hornbills
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Re: From Floods and Surprises in River beds
Lovely sightings
Next trip to the bush??
Let me think......................
Let me think......................
Re: From Floods and Surprises in River beds
So many TTs, so little time , but I always enjoy "seeing" through your eyes, especially the wonderful bird pics . Can't decide who loves mud more, ellies or pigs , and the wildebeest interaction was very well captured
Re: From Floods and Surprises in River beds
Sometimes we do also stop for wildebeests - When in action we can watch them for hours
When they do appear without any noise can can be indeed very sacry
We indeed spent quite a while with them
Thanks for doing the catching up marathonBushcraft wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 12:51 pm Catching up
A wonderful start with so many bird varieties
You guys also got a black-crowned night heron. I’m yet to see 1.
Junior rhino are becoming a rare sighting in KNP sadly
Nice male lion near the S120 intersection
Sjoe, there are plenty more birds around in the summer months
The Vurhami pride seems to love hanging out at the dam.
The vervet and mongoose interaction is very cool
Lesser bush baby jumping on Timon’s shoulder
A great lion sighting on the S28
Biyamiti viewpoint is a fantastic spot to sit and relax
Your pics are excellent again
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It is always nice to see a juvenile one in such a family group
We indeed had more than such a nice time
Always such a pleasure
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Re: From Floods and Surprises in River beds
Then again we had extreme quiet parts we travelled on but we were compensated whilst standing for the final time at Duke’s waterhole as our beloved blue and common waxbills put up a show for us
and arrived alternatively at the waterhole to quench their thirst
or simply to take an extensive bath.
In between we noticed also a pin tailed whydah who first landed in a bush
and then started to feed on the many seeds on the ground.
We had such fun in watching
and photographing the waxbills as sometimes they presented to us quite comical poses
and they even dived into the water
and splashed around.
and arrived alternatively at the waterhole to quench their thirst
or simply to take an extensive bath.
In between we noticed also a pin tailed whydah who first landed in a bush
and then started to feed on the many seeds on the ground.
We had such fun in watching
and photographing the waxbills as sometimes they presented to us quite comical poses
and they even dived into the water
and splashed around.
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They indeed must have had such a fun in the water on such a hot day.
Sorry about all the shots I posed but I in fact could not really choose favourites as all of them came out as favourites of ours
especially with the many common and blue waxbills together as both bird species are normally always on the run and seldom sit still long enough for some decent shots.
The fuss the waxbills arranged obviously attracted other birds as also a redbilled oxpecker wanted to drink
as well as a laughing dove.
As it was already our last visit in that area we simply had to capture the view at Duke's on picture
whilst the birds made a slight pause in their appearing we concentrated on some flowers also not far away from where we stood and after a while also a beautiful butterfly visited the flower as well
and in the meantime the blue waxbills again appeared on the scene
as well as another feathered friend.
Then somehow all birds were gone and also we carried on and soon came across magpie shrikes,
European bee eaters,
to be continued......
Sorry about all the shots I posed but I in fact could not really choose favourites as all of them came out as favourites of ours
especially with the many common and blue waxbills together as both bird species are normally always on the run and seldom sit still long enough for some decent shots.
The fuss the waxbills arranged obviously attracted other birds as also a redbilled oxpecker wanted to drink
as well as a laughing dove.
As it was already our last visit in that area we simply had to capture the view at Duke's on picture
whilst the birds made a slight pause in their appearing we concentrated on some flowers also not far away from where we stood and after a while also a beautiful butterfly visited the flower as well
and in the meantime the blue waxbills again appeared on the scene
as well as another feathered friend.
Then somehow all birds were gone and also we carried on and soon came across magpie shrikes,
European bee eaters,
to be continued......
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Re: From Floods and Surprises in River beds
A birdie day!
Totally agree that it is difficult to photograph the waxbills, Pumbaa!
What pretty creatures they are!
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