From Floods and Surprises in River beds

[Flutterby]

Nice and green at N'wanetsi.

Lovely hippo pics.

[Lisbeth]

Nature is wonderful and the closer you look the better it gets

[Bushcraft]

The hyena in the green grass stands out

The Tawny in the grass pics , but the 1 on the stump is fantastic

GBH on its nest

[Richprins]

Water, water everywhere!

Nwanetsi looking very nice indeed, Pumbaa.

And rare heron nest!

[Mel]

Great find of the heron nest

And that hippo youngster is adorable

[Pumbaa]

Thanks so much Alf, Flutterby, Lisbeth, Bushcraft, Richprins and Mel for your always so enthusiastic comment

[Pumbaa]

Timon was again in his element and was taking picture after picture



and for me it was once more very difficult to choose the best so hopefully you did not get bored.



We were the only people in the hide and had a great time especially with that quite full dam and the splashing hippos and afterwards it was time for a nap time for them





but obviously the sunbathing crocodile had enough from the splashing and made itself scarce.



After a very entertaining time we even drove to the causeway and there we spotted another malachite kingfisher against the sun



and a woodland kingfisher but as nothing else was around we returned to the S41 as we simply wanted to drive same once again and there we came across a blind snake



also a first for us and the only snake we only spotted during that trip besides the one the secretary bird caught.



At one of the many causeways we crossed we stopped for another grey heron,

[Pumbaa]

further down we met another steenbok lady in the high grass



and also in the high grass a ground hornbill family was busy with the collection business





and in between one of them looked very flirty



and although the grass was really high we had good visibility on same and were having a great time watching them.





Overall we simply enjoyed a last ride on one of our favoured roads in that area during this trip for sure benefitted by that marvellous sunny weather as everything looked totally different compared to the rainy weather we experienced the days before. The same opinion were obviously also the resting waterbucks we then discovered as they were totally relaxed



the ladies as well as the boss



and to our delight we even noticed a Namaqua dove also a bird we do not see that often but when then really in this area of the park most.



to be continued……

[Alf]

Never seen a namaqua dove before

Love the hippo action

[Flutterby]

Lovely pics as usual. I like the hornbill in the long grass.