And then the rain set in or at dusk the bush comes alive

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The birds are fantastic (as usual lol ) and I really love your zebra shot series here.
Very good photos. The light is great, and the colours show a beautiful contrast. :-)


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Flutterby wrote: Fri Jun 08, 2018 8:11 am Love the pic of the waxbill. \O
We always struggled with this bird to get decent shots but this year it was finally our time \O


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Lisbeth wrote: Fri Jun 08, 2018 11:18 amSo do I \O
More of these cuties to come O/\


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Richprins wrote: Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:25 pm Lucky Friday again! :ty: :ty: :ty:

There is meant to be a small zebra/wildebeest migration from the central district to the Sabie river every spring, but it has watered down some years... O-/

Grand zebra and bird pics, Pumbaa! O/\
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Mel wrote: Mon Jun 11, 2018 6:26 am The birds are fantastic (as usual lol ) and I really love your zebra shot series here.
Very good photos. The light is great, and the colours show a beautiful contrast. :-)
Finally the sun was with us during that trip \O


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Some of them seemed indeed very interested

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and we had a more than great time in watching them – They are such cute birdies.

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We definitely had an awesome break there and this was for sure not our last visit there during that trip and not far we stopped for a family of warthogs with some smaller piglets

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and then a bird appeared which we do always have high on our wish list – a paradise whydah

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first we could capture same on a branch but later on same flew down on the ground and consequently made it more difficult for us to capture same as this is a very active bird.

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Another nice surprise and normally a rare sighting for us was a lovely posing slender mongoose and gladly for us same stayed in the middle of the road quite a while so we were able to take a couple of shots as normally you only do see a flash of brown fur.

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We again stopped for another nicely posing European roller

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and along the S130 we always make a break at a small pond which unfortunately was not carrying that much water as we expected especially compared to Duke’s or Ntandanyathi but at least it was still a pond recognisable and a sandpiper just made a break from foraging.

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Soon we were already on the tar road leading to Lower Sabie and in the very dry bushes along that road we again discovered a couple of red billed queleas

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it was no comparison to the masses of this bird we saw last year – they only appeared sporadically as it was far too dry at that stage we visited the park but for us they are always more than worth to stop for.

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On the other side we spotted a huge elephant bull with large tuskers

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who gladly came closer after same crossed the river

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whilst all the others were still cooling down in the river as it was meanwhile already getting extreme hot.

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Also here we stayed a long time as it was amazing to see the come and go of all the different elephants and we also came across some white backed vultures

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and for sure took a break at the Lower Sabie causeway but as it was there disappointingly quiet we instead stopped at Sunset dam and there we were entertained by a lot of weavers

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busy in building or refurbishing their nests.

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Unfortunately the spoonbills only could be seen in the distance but then together with a smaller crocodile.

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As the white faced ducks also preferred to stay in the distance we instead observed again the close weavers

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and after same had hidden very successfully we could also capture again one of our favourite birds, the malachite kingfisher

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and there was even a second one around and same nearly sat the whole time on top of the overflow.

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to be continued......


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So many lovely birds...especially the whydah! ^Q^ Seen them in Kruger, but never managed to get a pic! :no:

Nice tusker too! \O


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What a miracle photographing 3 of the impossible seven, Pumbaa! Mongoose, malachite and whydah! lol Very good pics, plus a tusker! ^Q^


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A slender mongoose is a great find O/\ O/\ O/\ The birds are lovely, especially the malachite kingfisher; they have such beautiful colours ^Q^ ^Q^


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