Africa Wild

The photos of the various raptors are fantastic Maybe because they are slightly wet and the feathers are slightly messy. Especially the booted eagle. In the photo taken from the front, it looks really silly

Cute squirrels and mongooses

You sure had to change camp quite a lot

Are there still Kruger birds that you have not seen

Lovely chimitarbill

If I don't error the Chanting goshawk found in Kruger is the "dark" one

Do you know which kind of buzzard the white-breasted one is?

The leopard sighting is very special! It looks as if he is showing in how many positions it is possible to sleep A beautiful beast

Very nice, Pumbaa!

A great leopard posing session!

Looks like the sun came out a bit at last!

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 10:51 am

The photos of the various raptors are fantastic Maybe because they are slightly wet and the feathers are slightly messy. Especially the booted eagle. In the photo taken from the front, it looks really silly

Cute squirrels and mongooses

You sure had to change camp quite a lot

Are there still Kruger birds that you have not seen

Lovely chimitarbill

If I don't error the Chanting goshawk found in Kruger is the "dark" one

Do you know which kind of buzzard the white-breasted one is?

The leopard sighting is very special! It looks as if he is showing in how many positions it is possible to sleep A beautiful beast

For sure some Kruger birds are still missing on our list Dark chanting goshawk is correct No I can ask one of the expects We were so happy about that leopard sighting after all the bad luck with the road closures

Sorry for letting you wait but just came back from our summer holidays in Denmark

Richprins wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2023 5:48 pm Very nice, Pumbaa!

A great leopard posing session!

Looks like the sun came out a bit at last!

Yes, at least that day we had nearly no rain with lots of sunshine but the next day was the complete opposite

On one of the prominent boulders along that road a couple of ant eating chats could be seen



and to our astonishment a great number of other cars stopped here and admired this bird specie.





After we continued our drive it got again a bit quiet but we stopped for another lilac breasted roller as well as many European bee eaters





soon we were already passing Kwaggaspan where we again noticed an African jacana and along the road also yellow billed



as well as red billed hornbills were hanging around.



Luckily we noticed the breeding herd of elephants right in time so that we could pass them and took shots from a safe distance as suddenly more and more materialized from behind bushes



and they arrived from everywhere



and soon even more and more arrived.

They crossed the road whilst protecting their little ones extensively



and not only us but also many other cars meanwhile stopped and admired that elephant invasion.





We also came across a forktailed drongo



and finally stopped ones again at Afsaal which was packed with people and also the vervet monkeys made trouble again as they first stole from one woman from her lunch pack the grapes and then another monkey stole an apple which same ate then with relish on top of the tree. After a while we continued and again we were stuck as more elephants arrived





and large and small crossed also here the road



at least we got again a great number of shots.



The obligatory impalas could be detected as well



as well a buzzard in flight.



to be continued...................

How was Denmark this year? I am afraid that you got typical Danish summer weather, the warm dry period was earlier I think By now you must know Denmark better than I do, if you are not going back to the same place every year.

Ant-eating chats are not very common birds or maybe there are other bird lovers around

That was a lot of elephants and you were not even up north

Nice, Pumbaa!

Interesting the various colorations of the chats!

And some nice ellie pics in the sun!

some nice pictures... all sort

the Ant-eating Chat, seems to be a Mocking Cliff Chat, male and female ... or I'm completely wrong (but I saw quite a lot of Ant-eating Chat in the Kgalagadi ) ... a very nice bird

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2023 11:10 am How was Denmark this year? I am afraid that you got typical Danish summer weather, the warm dry period was earlier I think By now you must know Denmark better than I do, if you are not going back to the same place every year.

Ant-eating chats are not very common birds or maybe there are other bird lovers around

That was a lot of elephants and you were not even up north

Denmark was nice and we even had still nice weather - Luckily it was not that hot as last year but for us still sufficient, most of the days 23 degrees which is still hot for Denmark in summer as we already had colder summers where we even had to switch the oven on We had also rain but mostly in the evenings or by night. Since childhood we spent our summers in Denmark and mostly in the same place but meanwhile we visited different places