From Floods and Surprises in River beds

[Alf]

Just love that little kudu

[Flutterby]

Cute kudu baby! Never seen a teal or fulvous ducks in Kruger....nice sightings.

[Richprins]

More birds and babies, Pumbaa!

Is that teal rare?

I love the baby kudu.

Yes Timbavati is often quiet, but also few cars!

[Lisbeth]

The fulvous duck is new to me too. I have seen red-billed teals once, two of them

Cute little kudu with a caring mom

Great sequence of the snake-eating secretary bird I would love to see it

[Bushcraft]

That secretary bird pic sequence is fantastic


Baby little kudu

[Tataruka]

Wow Pumbaa what a great trip with all the awesome sightings and such beautiful photos

[Mel]

What a nice sighting of that secretary with the snake

Also, I find all the kids very cute - kudu, ellie, zebra.
Pity that the waterbuck one was a bit obscured by an adult.

[Pumbaa]

Thanks so much Harrys, Alf, Flutterby, Richprins, Lisbeth, Bushcraft, Tataruka and Mel for all the lovely comments & compliments

At least the teals are not a regular sighting for us so always great to see them

[Pumbaa]

Then we were caught in a smaller traffic jam – A lot of raptors could be seen on the ground in the grass close to the road – We discovered a tawny



another one



and a beautiful dark brown one



on top also lots of European rollers were also around and even were dive bombing to the ground between all the many raptors.



Besides on the ground many of the raptors were circling in the sky and from time to time one landed on a tree stump





and also many amur falcons joint the other raptors in the sky and also were flying close to the ground between them.



Some of the amur falcons could be captured whilst flying around





and as we had still a lot of time left we decided to pay a short visit to Nkaya pan and return later with a bit spare time to this sighting. Nkaya pan itself was a lovely spot but it was not that much around but we spotted a grey heron on a rock



and a lone wildebeest taking a rest



so we stayed not that long and returned to the raptors who were still around – Now ever a lighter one could be captured as well.

[Pumbaa]

We really had a great time to watch and photograph all these different raptors





especially with all the different colours they had and that they even could be seen so close to the road without feeling disturbed.









For sure we stayed as long as possible and so did most of the cars as well so when the gate closing time approached a great number of cars in a row was travelling slowly back to camp but for sure it was still enough time to capture one of the two rainbows with the dark clouds in the background.





On top we even stopped for another brown raptor in a tree along the road



and whilst we noticed the turn off into the S100 we realized that they opened same again so we will be able to drive tomorrow our farewell tour on that road as tomorrow will also be our last full day in Satara and today we decided to have dinner in the restaurant which was indeed quite full and the food and service were great as well.

Monday, 18. February 2019 - Satara

Explored roads: H1-4 – S100 – S41 – H6 – S37 – S41 – S90 – H1-4 – H1-13 – S126 – S36 – H7 – H1-4

After all the rain the previous days today we were surprised by a beautiful sunrise





and as already said the S100 is always a must although same can be extreme quiet and was indeed quiet during that trip but a final drive on our last day in that area is a must. We stopped for another tawny eagle with a nearly pink sky in the background



and it took not that long and same said already good-bye to us.



to be continued…..