SO birthday dash Feb 2022

[Lisbeth]

excellent to eat

If you don't have alcohol in your system, because then you will not feel well at all

[Richprins]

Quite the selection, Rog!

lion day indeed!

I think the eagle is a tawny!

[RogerFraser]

Thanks Roger,

love the heron on its nests and the hyaenas and again lion luck

and more to come

thank you for this TT Roger
the mushroom is a "Coprinus", well seen, well done excellent to eat maybe a bit more fresher
love too the flowers, Heron on the nest and of course Hyenas

Thanks for the ID nan .Too scared to pick wild mushrooms to eat .Need to get some training on what is safe .

excellent to eat

If you don't have alcohol in your system, because then you will not feel well at all

ok then definitely not

Quite the selection, Rog!

lion day indeed!

I think the eagle is a tawny!

birds

[RogerFraser]

After lunch we had a break before going back out in the late afternoon .The plan was to go past the two sets of Lions and see if there was any activity . There was no activity by the ex Zebra kill still so we went down to the other pride . Some of the Lions were now waking and cleaning in the grass in the side .We stopped and watched them for a while .While we were watching a Sanparks drive arrived drove past us and reversed and kept reversing until they both blocked our view and nearly hit our car had I not moved out the way at the last moment .Needless to say I was but SO would not let me give him a piece of my mind as there was tourists on the drive ...






We decided to rather leave and take a slow drive back to the other Lions. On the way we found some of SO favorite little scavengers


We then spent the rest of the time watching the coming and goings around the Lions and leftover Zebra .The Hyenas were wanting to get some leftovers but very wary of the Lion who was still sleeping with his prize rack of ribs ...


One of the Lionesses appeared out the ridge and slowly approached creeping up towards the leftovers


But he was not in a mood to share as soon as she got close he woke up


He stood up and made sure they knew not to approach .


The Lioness lay down in the Grass and a second Lioness started to approach . They greeted each other then lay cleaning each other


It was a lovely time of day to sit and watch them


We even had some Plovers in the road with the Hyenas .


The Hyenas were trying to muster the courage to challenge for their stake but were not quite brave enough






Unfortunately it was eventually time to leave to camp on the road to camp SO snapped a sunset


And in camp we took another that also shows how high the grass was .Would not want to go walking about here at night ...


That night we found a visitor on a tree using the blacklight but only got a blurry pic

[Lisbeth]

There are really lions all over the place

Lovely navy blue in the last pic

Some very nice hyena shots

The birds are crowned lapwings. I'll give you some bird ID lessons

[Richprins]

What a gorgeous lions sighting, Rog!

Action all over!

And rain...

I like the shot of the hyenas amongst the cars.

And the plovers in the road!

[nan]

excellent to eat

If you don't have alcohol in your system, because then you will not feel well at all

not the same... there is "Coprin chevelu" nice to eat and "Coprin noir d'encre", this last one is bad with wine (alcohol)
2 different species

[RogerFraser]

There are really lions all over the place

Lovely navy blue in the last pic

Some very nice hyena shots

The birds are crowned lapwings. I'll give you some bird ID lessons

What a gorgeous lions sighting, Rog!

Action all over!

And rain...

I like the shot of the hyenas amongst the cars.

And the plovers in the road!

We always seem to have luck with Lions around this area

excellent to eat

If you don't have alcohol in your system, because then you will not feel well at all

not the same... there is "Coprin chevelu" nice to eat and "Coprin noir d'encre", this last one is bad with wine (alcohol)
2 different species

nan will need to get some lessons on Mushroom id as well

[RogerFraser]

The next morning we woke up to this fellow hunting in the river bed across from us


It was the day to move to Malelane so we packed and left early .
Some flowers with the early dew


We found the Hyenas on the road again suckling and stopped to watch


Low and behold a SANPARKS OSV arrived and pushed passed us upsetting the hyenas and causing them to scatter ...





As can be seen it was a wet start to the day .This stork was not happy with the weather


There was some activity at the Giraffe carcass near Satara


The cleanup crew was busy ...


A roller close to Satara


Shortly after leaving Satara on the way down south we found a Ground hornbill with breakfast

[Richprins]

Wet and miserable!

Nice hyenas up close, Rog.

Naughty game drive vehicle...