Escape from the Rat Race. Another live TT from BT.

[JustN@ture]

Just catching up again BT, a great sighting of the lions on both mornings just a pity the vehicle had to block the sighting like that
Lovely bird photo's, the Black Crake is stunning
what an awesome sighting of the cheetah

[nan]

BluTuna, just catch up again your TT

beautiful close up of Moths and Bugs this one with a lot of colours seems to be paint by children... superb
nice serie of birds, incredible, the big nest a not so big Hammerkop can built and this one at Biyamiti weir is
I saw at last the flower -O
Arrow-marked Babbler can also have some differents
not easy, the work of dunk Beetles
the sunset across the Sabbie is wonderful
and for the end... five (in the picture)... no six Cheetahs... what a sighting

[BluTuna]

Wow, wow, wow!!!! What an amazing cheetah sighting!!!!

Great pics at the weir and nice tusker!

I've just taken another look at the Tusker site and still can't find this chap. Does Aat have a tusker ID thread on this site??


Thanks Flutts, Lisbeth, BC, Pooky, Mel, Amoli, JN, it was an exceptional Cheetah sighting, the most cheetahs we've ever seen together.

-O -O -O -O -O

loved seeing naomi campbell............. -O -O -O

nothing to do with it being a black crake.... of course....

You should change your name to Letchie

Jeez, those are good pics!

My favourite is the ostriches!

They are plovers, NOT lapwings!

Thanks RP, I'm still trying to get used to the revised bird names - one you'll NEVER hear me use is the new name for the Grey Lourie - I keep wondering which 3 year old thought of that one.

BluTuna, just catch up again your TT

beautiful close up of Moths and Bugs this one with a lot of colours seems to be paint by children... superb
nice serie of birds, incredible, the big nest a not so big Hammerkop can built and this one at Biyamiti weir is
I saw at last the flower -O
Arrow-marked Babbler can also have some differents
not easy, the work of dunk Beetles
the sunset across the Sabbie is wonderful
and for the end... five (in the picture)... no six Cheetahs... what a sighting

Thanks for your kind comments Nan!

[BluTuna]

For those of you who haven't visited the "What is it?" thread, I was interested to see how quickly it got identified.



Surpisingly it's not actually a flower but a blossom from a Beobab tree.

[BluTuna]

Day 12. Lower Sabie.

Today we drove the Gomondwane Loop - S137 - S28 again, one of my favourite morning drives, ending up at Croc for a super breakfast.

But first, in the loo, an Owl Moth



Not far from the camp, a Fish Eagle having breakfast with the sunrise



A Sabota Lark?



an Ele taking a mud bath on the Gomondwane Loop



At first I thought I had a leaf on my door but it turned out to be this cute little grasshopper who was only about 1cm long.



Just after we turned onto the S137 we ran into a herd of Buffs.




and much further along down the S28, a pair of Giraffes necking




In typical female fashion, she was leading him on and as soon as he got serious she turned away



and then came back to lead him on a little bit more.



He gave up and walked off shortly after.

At Croc Bridge, this Tree Agama was....well....in a tree



As we were walking back to the car, Mommy Wartie strolled into camp with 4 piglets.





Back to LS via the H4 and S82 where we spotted this young Whitebacked Vulture practicing takeoffs and landings







The afternoon drive took up back down the Gomandwane Loop but first a quick look at Sunset Dam where we found a Blackwinged Stilt



and an Openbilled Stork.



At Nthahdanyathi Hide a Greenbacked Heron caught a snack



and when we were almost back to the H4, a young Lion in the grass



By this time we were running really late and had to do 26 kms in about 45 minutes so we cut 5kms off that by going up the S82.

As always, when you are late there's something interesting to see.

I think these were the Lions we saw yesterday morning.

[Lisbeth]

Incredible how fitting the names of the moths are

I love your macro photos

The tree agama is a beauty

[Flutterby]

Love the little grasshopper -O , and the vulture & giraffe pics are great!! Lovely lion sighting.

There is a Tusker ID thread under the reference library, but you can also email Aat...I think there's a link on his site.

[Lisbeth]

I have put a link somewhere to Aat's tusker site

[Lisbeth]

Found it - https://africawild-forum.com/viewtopic.php?p=4264#p4264

[nan]

nice White-backed Vulture landing
and the green Gasshopper, Oppenbilled Stork, small Heron