Overwhelmed with Kgalagadi

[Pumbaa]

Great shots of all the different antelopes, pedro maia,

pkus cute mongoose and awesome jackal shots but my favourite is the bathing secretary bird

[pedro maia]

guys, time to post another day´s pictures.

[pedro maia]

At first my idea for our third day at the park was to go all the way to Mata Mata and back but we were just too tired so we decided to try the Auob river road, then the lower dunes road and the final stretch of the Nossob road during the morning, have lunch at our lodge, rest a bit and then return to the park to go on a sunset drive from Twee Rivieren, it was going to be the hottest day (it got to 33º) of all so it wouldn´t be too cold for the night part of the sunset drive.

The decision to start the day by the Auob road was logical since we had driven the Nossob road up and down the two previous days but it wasn´t the best one, if we had done the other way round we wouldn´t have miss hyenas and jackals sharing a carcass close to the road, when we passed by the spot there weren´t any hyenas, jackals or carcass, it´s just the way it is, we cuoldn´t have guessed it but it would have been better if nobody told us about the sighting we missed.

The Auob road was very quiet, the first sighting worth mentioning was this black headed heron at a waterhole

And this “zazu”, we only saw them at the Auob road.

A nice view of the Auchterlonie museum

We made a quick stop to get in, a curious place that shows a bit of the roughness of living at this hostile place 100 years ago

Then we entered the lower dunes road and I must say that although it didn´t produce any extraordinary sighting it is a really beautiful road

As usual oryx showed up and they really fit in the red dunes landscape

[pedro maia]

The inevitable jackal crossing the road

An immature pale chanting goshawk, I guess

A kori bustard in the dunes, we saw a few of them in this road

I don´t know how did we spot this stenbock, it wasn´t that close to the road and it has just the same colour of the sand

An ostrich

[pedro maia]

Another kori bustard, this one very close to us

A beautiful raptor, can someone ID it for me?

Some cute ground squirrels

Close up of a jackal

The road

And back to the Nossob road, where we were told about the hyenas feeding sighting we missed

[Lisbeth]

The grey raptor is the usual pale chanting goshawk, edition adult

I just love those ground squirrels

On the dune roads the almost sure sightings are Steenboks, ostriches, korhans and kori bustards. The kories you also see elsewhere though.

The herons are an unusual sighting in KTP but after the very wet late summer, obviously some of them have stayed behind

[Pumbaa]

Really amazing sightings, pedro maia

lots of raptors plus cute squirrels

[Flutterby]

Those squirrels are so funny!

Lovely landscapes!

[Richprins]

Superb variety of pics again, Pedro!

Didn't know about that museum thing, thanks for that! The KTP mafia never mention these kinds of things...


Grand scenic shots!


33 degrees...

[nan]

Didn't know about that museum thing, thanks for that! The KTP mafia ........ never mention these kinds of things...

are you sure

Lot of people said there is nothing in the dune roads

Black-headed Herons are there from a long time, at several places and they nest

love the landscapes all around, the Steenbok trying to hide himself
and Squirrels