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Running, or rather flying, off is what birds always do when I point my camera at them. At least it feels like it

Good Mountain Zebra sightings to start with I find the oryx rather skittish and the blue crane too (see above )
Jackal might be common but getting a rather close and clear shot is a different story in this park, methinks.

Beautiful mountain zebra against the dam

love Mountain Zebras and Blue Crane

Mel wrote: Running, or rather flying, off is what birds always do when I point my camera at them. At least it feels like it

Good Mountain Zebra sightings to start with I find the oryx rather skittish and the blue crane too (see above )
Jackal might be common but getting a rather close and clear shot is a different story in this park, methinks.

Beautiful mountain zebra against the dam

Quite a few animals and birds were doing the running/flying away thing to me this time
Agreed - the gemsbok are very skittish for some reason. We saw quite a few blue crane on this trip which was cool. We've never found many jackal before in MZNP, but strangely this time they popped up all over the place

nan wrote:love Mountain Zebras and Blue Crane

Thanks nan
The mountain zebras are very photogenic... they pose much more regally than their burchells counterparts

The light is lovely! I like the mountain zebras.

Lovely pic of the single mountain zebra And all the rest too

Flutterby wrote:The light is lovely! I like the mountain zebras.

It really is a great place for photography in the morning and evening light

Lisbeth wrote:Lovely pic of the single mountain zebra And all the rest too

Thanks Lis

As we continued around Ubejane loop the light became even more golden. We saw more of the regulars including springbok, another gemsbok, red hartebeest and ostrich









Right at the end of the loop we were treated to a great sighting of a black backed jackal. We hadn't seen so many of them in MZNP before, and certainly when we had they had always been very skittish. But this was one of many sightings this trip, and amazingly they didn't seem to run off too quickly this time







As the sun started sinking lower, our last sighting of the day was a big eland bull



Arriving at camp we settled into our chalet and wondered what the next day would bring

Lovely golden jackal

The big eland bulls are impressive

Lovely pics of the jackal...it's not often they stand still!

Lovely light and winter colours there...or is it spring or what...dunno how it works in the colonies there?

Interesting ostrich!

Is that a pan or a dam, Peej?