The rest of our drive until we turned into the S90 was uneventful and also the first kilometers on that road revealed nothing until we noticed a strange looking raptor on a tree stump
we so far detected that raptor only twice during our many visits to Kruger and were extreme happy to find another montagu’s harrier
although funny was our very first sighting of this raptor was exactly on the S90 a couple of year’s ago. A second car neared as well but luckily the driver was also in the mood for taking pictures of the montagu’s harrier instead of hurrying to the next sighting as meanwhile also a second one landed right in the middle of the road in front of our car.
We always tried to near cautiously but whenever we came too near the raptor took off only to land again farer away in the middle of the road and that procedure repeated a couple of times
before one disappeared but luckily the other one of the Montagu’s landed on a dead bush close to the road and with the brilliant morning sun we and the passenger in the other car who as well followed us cautiously once again had the possibility of taking a ton of pictures
as same simply posed so nicely
but after half an hour we spent together with the two Montagu’s same finally could no longer be seen after taking off and as already experienced the previous days and expected the grass along this road was far too high in discovering something on the ground away from the road. Luckily for us that birds normally can fly so we again discovered a couple of feathered friends on fallen trees.
The yellow billed hornbill in a bush was not easy to capture
and then we noticed a kori bustard also in the middle of the road but same was not willing to stay and decided to take off indeed a not that often happening sighting
but I suppose for the kori the grass was also too high and same decided to look out for another landing place with shorter grass.
We stopped for one of the numberless burchell’s we found this year
as well as for another “lighter” Mr. zorro
and finally also one of the many white winged widowbirds along that road
was more than willing to pose.
to be continued………………….