The red-billed queleas had been unleashed

[nan]

magnificent Rhinos... and Kudus + this one saying hello... and again birds, like Zorro
superb light on the Vulture

[Richprins]

Pumbaa! Nice and rare female rhino pee pic!

I love the buffalo and kudu!

[All-Nature]

Great early morning light pix's of the birdies

Special Grey photies waterworks and all!

Nice looking Buffs and Kudu too!

[Pumbaa]

What a nice group of beautiful male kudus

The rhino has a super horn

I think that the raptor is a wahlberg's eagle

Lovely light on the roller

My first guess was also Wahlberg

[Pumbaa]

magnificent Rhinos... and Kudus + this one saying hello... and again birds, like Zorro
superb light on the Vulture

The Kudus were so plentiful although the bushes were so thick

[Pumbaa]

Pumbaa! Nice and rare female rhino pee pic!

I love the buffalo and kudu!

It took quite a whilte until she had finished

[Pumbaa]

Great early morning light pix's of the birdies

Special Grey photies waterworks and all!

Nice looking Buffs and Kudu too!

Always such a pleasure when the Grey ones do come across

[Pumbaa]

Again it was time to admire all the different beautiful butterflies as already said we never saw that many of them this year.



It was a bit like the red-billed queleas sometimes a flock of them took off just to land on the other side of the road on which one obviously the flowers did look better.



Then we had to drive backwards as from behind a corner two bulldozers appeared at least at first sight they looked so.



Two beautiful rhinos walked determined right on the road and it was obvious that they do not have the intention to clear same voluntarily.



They came closer and closer and we had no choice then to put the reverse gear in to drive backwards and give them enough space.



This happened quite a view times and gladly no other cars arrived and on top finally they obviously lost interest and cleared the road and started to feed on some grass on the roadside.



The loops along that road you are allowed to drive had been extreme suffered under the recent rains and some of them did look unridable as they had been washed out extensively. We dared to drive one in order to come closer to the river and in the loop we could capture one the of many white winged widows.



Also the lesser spotted eagles occurred in a number that we have never realized ever before and this one was even willing to pose quite long.





On top they were a lot of puddles along that road which turned during the heavy rain into beautiful lakes with some nice growing bushes / trees. Due to the wet summer we in fact did not have that luck as last years as most of those natural waterholes were deserted this year.

[Pumbaa]

Also in the hide or at the dams we discovered only few animals and birds and for sure this was no comparison compared to the masses of animals who came to drink last year but for sure is the wet weather, full dams and waterholes plus dense vegetation far better for all the animals in the park.

Nevertheless we stopped at Gardenia hide as this hide turns more and more into one of our favourites the more often we visit same but as already expected it was extreme quiet there with only few birds but it was wonderful to spot the hide that full again.

We, however, stayed a bit longer to relax a bit from driving and after quite a while some rustling in the close by trees soon revealed a group of vervets which had great fun in chasing each other on the branches and on the ground.



One of the many youngsters of them was curiously eying us from behind some branches.



Same was simply too cute and on top same grabbed a leave from the branch, turned same around and started to feed on something which looked like a caterpillar and same obviously tasted very yummy.



Far away on the other side a green backed heron landed but same stayed nearly hidden between the branched and also the red billed firefinches were hanging around that hide but also stayed far too far away for a decent shot.



After a lovely break in which we nearly stayed alone in the hide we carried on the met Mrs. zorro



and we could not avoid to be checked out again by the terrapins whilst crossing one of the many causeways in that area.



It was a long time ago when we saw these colourful crickets in the park so same had to be photographed.



On our way back to camp we met again a group of impalas out of which the dominate male obviously had an oxpecker problem.



More and more of these hitchhikers landed on him and he started to get more and more annoyed by them.



For us it was quite fun watching him as his facial expressions were simply the best.



In one of the thick bushes we noticed a movement and after quite a while a burchells’s coucal appeared in the scene. This year we saw only very few of them but at least we were happy that we could capture that one.



to be continued.....

[Lisbeth]

Such pretty pics of the butterflies

And the little vervet is just too cute