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

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Yes... I do get you being after the painted snipe! Beautiful bird and luckily that bucket list sighting was also a really good one in terms of photography :-0 :-0 :-0

What's going on with you and the eagle owls? lol Another great sighting!!!

Very cute waterbuck chick too O\/


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Wow really amazing birds ^Q^ ^Q^


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Magic pics of the Tschagra Shrike and Eagle owl!! Painted Snipe are often seen in very wet periods


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Great sighting of the Painted Snipe ^Q^ , plus all the other birdies!! \O \O You don't often see the giant eagle owls on the ground! :shock: \O

And the waterbuck is too cute!! :-0 Was its mom nearby? :-?


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Like they all said, Pumbaa! Excellent! O/\ O\/ ^Q^

What a nice vignette of water life! :ty:

Never seen a snipe nor an owl on the ground! :shock:


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Snipes are almost always on the ground O** =O:


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Thanks so much, Lisbeth, Mel, Alf, Peter, Flutterby and Richprins, for you ongoing support and wonderful words \O

We were so happy to finally saw a greater painted snipe O/\ O/\ O/\


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Our bird luck continued and we noticed a purple roller,

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some still very wet grey louries

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and another fish eagle before we then stood again in front of the Satara camp gate and only after a short break there we hurried out again as it was for us still far too early to stay the rest of the day in camp and as the S126 was in the past always a lovely drive and same had not been driven this year we decided to give this road another try and it took not that long when we stopped for an African fish eagle

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and a Wahlberg eagle who simply had to be captured as same posed so nicely

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and after same called whoever

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same finally took off.

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Although the road was today a bit quiet we had a nice time and stopped for another juvenile bateleur,

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saw more grey louries, giraffes and a steenbok

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love that shot of the two species together.

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For us this road is always a hot spot for steenbokkies and so it was today as we observed a very wet she

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and also the appropriate he.

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The kudu lady under a marula tree is always a nice subject

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especially with the more and more getting out sunlight

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the red-billed hornbills appeared suddenly on the scene

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and we got entertained by a zebra rolling on the ground in the dust

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and finally nearly jumped on all four legs at the same time just like cats normally only do.

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Needless to say that we paid another visit at Ximangwaneni and the obligatory drinking elephant was

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around and put up a show for us.

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In the distance we noticed two juvenile bateleurs one was running around on the ground and stepped into a pile of poo and we had a good laugh about how same got rid of same but finally same was successful

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the other one stayed the whole time in the tree.

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to be continued….


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A great show of different birds as always; lovely! ^Q^ ^Q^


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