We took a little trip up to Oliphant's at the end of May. The Spotted Genet will however regale you with a more entertaining and detailed account of the weekend away a littler later on. I thought I would load up a couple of photographs in the meantime as a little bit of a "Prelude" so to say.
We upgraded our little Nikon Coolpix, (3 x Optical zoom,3 mg & 9 years old), before the trip to a Canon SX500 which for us was quite a leap forward!!
Maybe next year we'll enter the realm of the full SLR cameras
The Water Monitor has now been given the Nikon to practice with, which resulted in what must have been thousands of pictures!Anyway, here are a few pictures that were taken on the trip with our new toy........
A Southern Crowned Crane, which we haven't seen in the Kruger before. Sorry that its so small but as usual.......still not enough zoom!!
A Brown Snake Eagle, and no he wouldn't look at me....
A Grassveld Pipit, I stand under correction here.....still trying to learn these little fellows.
A Bateleur, what a beautiful bird.
Lilacbreasted Roller, love the colours on these birds.
Another one, I was moaned at eventually for taking so many pictures of the rollers.
Now, I'm having trouble identifying this bird. He's got quite a lot of yellow on his face. We think he's a Steppe or Tawny, but can't be 100% sure who it actually is....
If anyone knows please leave a comment.
