Heartstring Moments - Springtime in the Kalahari 2018

[Peter Betts]

Love the Juv Martial ..Lovely Low pose

[Flutterby]

Interesting info on all the bees!

Lovely pics of the Martial but how cute are those foxes?!

[Richprins]

How fascinating, Ex! Thanks for the bee info...as far as I recall the carpenter bee stings like a mule!

Those foxes are probably the most photogenic babies on earth!

The martial shot takes the cake!

[Lisbeth]

I understand why you are fascinated by the insects; they are really incredible

Those baby foxes are just too cute for words Did you see them very early in the morning?

Great pics of the martial eagle

[Pumbaa]

Caught up, ExFmem,

and had a great time in admiring all your numerous cheetah shots, the honey badger with little one, the cape fox family, all the different birdies and for sure all your fantastic insect shots and not to forget all the snakes

Simply breathtaking and very special

[ExFmem]

Harrys, Alf, Peter (best of luck with the foxes SOON ), Flutts, RP, Sis ( I appreciate you "getting" my obsession w/ insects, as most just go "yuck" , even my own family, and Yes, we saw the foxes both in the morning and again late afternoon sometimes ), and Pumbaa - YA'LL ARE THE BEST !!

[ExFmem]

After a couple nights at TweeR we returned to Urikaruus for 2 nights. Our first morning drive produced another sighting of Corinne and cubs across the river bed from the Urikaruus overlook. We were the only car at first, and noticed movement high on the dune, but blocked by the bushes/trees. We could see the cubs chasing one another, or so we thought…

Suddenly, the cubs burst out into the open riverbed, in hot pursuit of a springbok lamb.










We were interested to see if they had progressed in their hunting lessons since the last time we saw them with a lamb, when Mom had to intervene and kill the prey for them. We so hoped they had learned by now to quickly kill their catch, both for the cubs' sake, and also the poor lamb's.

Corinne let them do all the chasing and catching by themselves.






They were able to take the lamb down, but seemed somewhat confused as to what to do next.





Naturally, the lamb broke free and the chase was on again.














Of course they caught it, but their confusion on the next step was again apparent.






Yet again the lamb tried to run.
















I think now's a good place to switch to some tongue-in-cheek, lighter fare…

[ExFmem]

[ExFmem]

Lastly, c'mon, be honest, don't you wish you had sent at least ONE of these "cards" to someone in your life….

[Lisbeth]

Hilarious! How do you do it?



Yes! Number four, starting from the left-hand side (He was removed by the scavengers, while the others, still bored, watched the scene )