Re: Grietjie Private Reserve
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2021 5:52 pm
Great portraits all round, Sharky! 
Nice to watch on my HD screen loadshedding laptop!
Nice to watch on my HD screen loadshedding laptop!
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Re: Grietjie Private Reserve
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2021 6:29 pm
Great photos Sprocky
Re: Grietjie Private Reserve
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2021 7:51 pm
Stunning pictures
Re: Grietjie Private Reserve
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2021 8:08 pm
Lovely pics of the Lions .Good excuse for being late 
Re: Grietjie Private Reserve
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 4:21 pm
I like the Cut-throats
Re: Grietjie Private Reserve
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 5:04 pm
Very successful again! Nice close-up sighting of some lions An extraordinary close-up of the spurfowl and rare cut-throats.
Marvellous pix again
An extraordinary close-up of the spurfowl and rare cut-throats. Marvellous pix again
Re: Grietjie Private Reserve
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 7:58 am
Midweek post, strange...
Firstly, thanks for commenting and complimenting.
Grietjie is pumping with Lions at the moment. Yesterday between 17h00 and 19h00 there were four different sightings over the reserve. I spent almost an hour at the one sighting of five Lions. Will try and post pics this evening.
Firstly, thanks for commenting and complimenting.
Grietjie is pumping with Lions at the moment. Yesterday between 17h00 and 19h00 there were four different sightings over the reserve. I spent almost an hour at the one sighting of five Lions. Will try and post pics this evening.
Re: Grietjie Private Reserve
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:24 am
Re: Grietjie Private Reserve
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 6:02 pm
Right, time for yesterday evenings Lion sighting.
I received a message from Nenna saying that there are five Lions between the house and the dam, now this is where I used to live when I first moved to Grietjie. I immediately made my way across there and was right next to the Lions in no time. A great place to be with them, as it's right in the middle of the property and nobody without traversing rights can get there, so I spent close to an hour with them with no other people at all.
The light was fading fast, as I got there shortly after 18h00. The first pics were taken at 1600 ISO.
Here are four of the five when I arrived...
One of the young males...
Something got this ones attention...
The light was weakening even more (ISO 3200) and it was cooling down, which meant that they started grooming...
More coming up...
I received a message from Nenna saying that there are five Lions between the house and the dam, now this is where I used to live when I first moved to Grietjie. I immediately made my way across there and was right next to the Lions in no time. A great place to be with them, as it's right in the middle of the property and nobody without traversing rights can get there, so I spent close to an hour with them with no other people at all.
The light was fading fast, as I got there shortly after 18h00. The first pics were taken at 1600 ISO.
Here are four of the five when I arrived...
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Re: Grietjie Private Reserve
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 6:16 pm
They were now showing all the signs of getting mobile, the main sign...yawning...
They then started interacting in play...
Then the play got a bit more serious and very vocal...(ISO 6400)
And then, they slumped back down for a few minutes, before moving off and out of sight...
It was good while it lasted. Hopefully I'll have more to post, if Eloise doesn't get too serious this weekend... 
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Hopefully I'll have more to post, if Eloise doesn't get too serious this weekend...