From Floods and Surprises in River beds

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Lovely views.

Those views are always breathtaking and that is why we love that area that much

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but did not come far as a group of giraffes was once again blocking the road

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and as usual their crossing took a bit longer – I simply love the mountains in the background

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and we were allowed to take some close ups as well as most of them reached the other side

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but for sure the youngsters we extreme curious

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and peeped up from behind a smaller bush quite often.

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Around the next corner we noticed a marabou stork congress as an uncountable number of them were running around

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on the catch for insects.

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It was amazing to watch as all of them were wading around peacefully and very relaxed

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and from time to time we even captured more of them

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and once again we had this sighting nearly all alone for us and could take an incredible number of shots as most of them could be seen quite close

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and some of them even had time to take a sunbath.

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Finally we continued and we even noticed a pair of chinspot batis out of which him could be photographed whilst she was not willing to do so

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and at one of the many causeways we had to cross on that road we again found another malachite kingfisher who just shortly caught something creepy

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and was ready for more.

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I cannot remember having seen so many of these colourful birds throughout the park ever before it was amazing

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and also here we spent a lot of time photographing our nicely posing feathered friend.

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We again drove each loop you could drive leading closer to the Letaba river and there finally we spotted out first saddle billed stork couple during that trip

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and at Engelhard dam a great white egret was around as well as grey herons

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and finally the egret had luck in catching something.

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to be continued with a nice surprise in a river bed…….

[Richprins]

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Agreed about the mountains in the background...makes all the difference1

Birdies all over, and disgusting storks eating disgusting crickets!

The malachite is perfect1

[Lisbeth]

The marabou has the ugliest head in the block

Perfect pics of malachite kingfishers

[Flutterby]

Lovely Malachite!