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Re: The red-billed queleas had been unleashed
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 7:43 am
by Flutterby
Welcome back Pumbaa.
Lovely pics again. That leopard surely looks comfortable!
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Re: The red-billed queleas had been unleashed
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:23 pm
by Lisbeth
Welcome back in the cold, Pumbaa
The snake eagle looks cold too though
The lion sighting was really memorable
Mrs leopard looks very relaxed. Lovely sighting
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Re: The red-billed queleas had been unleashed
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 1:29 pm
by Ratel
Welcome back Pumbaa!
I can't wait for your next TT. How much longer does this one have to go?
That Leopard pose is an absolute classic! Legs dangling either side of the branch.
Re: The red-billed queleas had been unleashed
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 1:42 pm
by Flutterby
Ratel wrote: ↑Thu Mar 01, 2018 1:29 pm
I can't wait for your next TT. How much longer does this one have to go?
I just looked back...this TT has been going exactly a year!!
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That must be a record Pumbaa.
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Re: The red-billed queleas had been unleashed
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 6:11 pm
by Richprins
I have the records!
Welcome back, Pumbaa!
Sounds like a great trip...sun came out all day here for the first time in many days!
Love the postcard waterbuck pics!
I wonder what the plants are behind the lions, they are invaders.
Must be nice being a leopard, put takeaways in larder and sleep, eat, sleep..
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Re: The red-billed queleas had been unleashed
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 6:14 pm
by Lisbeth
But a leopard cannot "pilchar, pizza, pork" nor other delicacies, it has to work for its food
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Re: The red-billed queleas had been unleashed
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 7:37 am
by Richprins
Re: The red-billed queleas had been unleashed
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 9:57 pm
by Pumbaa
Thanks so much, nan, Flutterby, Lisbeth, Ratel, Richprins - Hopefully the next trip report will end a bit sooner than this one but I am confident and I try to hurry up with this one now
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for your patience
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Re: The red-billed queleas had been unleashed
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:00 pm
by Pumbaa
A must stop for us is always at the N’wamanzi look out where today a troop of baboon was hanging around – Gladly they only occurred when we were about to leave the look out so we could climb off the car without being disturbed by them but for sure stopped when they appeared
to take some shots especially from the cute youngsters. The elderly ones were grooming
and finally after more and more baboons where blocking the road they grabbed their babies and trotted slowly away.
We took again the gravel roads back to Letaba and stopped and photographed one of the many armoured crickets
and another nice surprise was a sharpe’s grysbok
feeding on some flowers in the thick vegetation
and in one of the many causeways we crossed we came across an elephant bull
drinking and feeding
and then we were back in the loop where we earlier that morning had the lion pride all to ourselves and what to say they were still there
but in the beginning we could not see the cubs so they obviously were taking somewhere else their afternoon nap but instead we noticed a blacksmith plover relative close to where we parked.
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Re: The red-billed queleas had been unleashed
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:02 pm
by Pumbaa
Most of the other adults were also sleepy and slept peacefully side by side on their favourite hill.
According to the tyre tracks in that loop meanwhile also other cars must have discovered the lions as we did not drive around in the morning they could not be ours. To our luck the cubs decided to show up again
and they made their way through the dense vegetation to greet mom enthusiastically.
At least one cub arrived whilst the other one was hanging around a bit farer away.
to be continued......