Africa Wild

Lovely Pics Pumbaa especially the African Cuckoo..hard to see let alone photograph ..Your White Headed Vultures are in fact Lappet Faced ..also a great pic

Very lucky with the cuckoo, Pumbaa!

And more warthogs in spa!

Interesting the two lappets on the ground there!

It does look hot!

Amazing birds again

Some I’ve never seen before

Wow, what a variety of birds Even two different cuckoos

A lot of mud-loving piggies

Peter Betts wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2019 7:00 am Lovely Pics Pumbaa especially the African Cuckoo..hard to see let alone photograph ..Your White Headed Vultures are in fact Lappet Faced ..also a great pic

Peter Betts wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2019 7:03 am Lovely Pics Pumbaa especially the African Cuckoo..hard to see let alone photograph ..Your White Headed Vultures are in fact Lappet Faced ..also a great pic

We were so happy about the african cuckoo sighting and we even saw another one later during the trip

Flutterby wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2019 7:02 am Warthogs are always fun to watch. Great pic of the cuckoo.

We in fact had so much fun in watching them

Richprins wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2019 8:53 am Very lucky with the cuckoo, Pumbaa!

And more warthogs in spa!

Interesting the two lappets on the ground there!

It does look hot!

I was in fact hot and I guess the lappet faced vultures simply rested close to the water

Alf wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:09 am Amazing birds again

Some I’ve never seen before

We simply love the Variety of birds we normally see in February

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:31 am Wow, what a variety of birds Even two different cuckoos

A lot of mud-loving piggies

We saw indeed quite a lot of different cuckoos during that trip - It was a wet summer indeed

and one of the grey herons just caught a fish.





Thereafter due to the lack of sightings we allowed us another visit at Ntandanyathi where today a grey heron,



red dragonflies,



a goliath heron was gazing into the distance





and also a cattle egret hung around there.



Also in the hide itself it was quiet and we most of the time had the hide all to ourselves therefore and because of the presence of all the different birds we stayed a bit longer than planned



and when we were about to leave the malachite kingfisher



and a woodland kingfisher appeared on the scene as well.

During the rest of our drive along the S28 we then only stopped for an elephant bull



until we then were stopped by a couple of cars which were parked on the side of the road nearly at the end of the S28 and at first sight we only saw a hyena, a jackal who stole something which looked like remains of a kill, a couple of vultures and finally also two lions.



Exactly at that spot the bushes were extreme dense and the view onto the lions was more or less miserable



but we finally got hold of a place where we at least had a first class view onto one of the lions



and same was also quite active despite the heat



and we had to exercise patience when same flopped down as the second one also was took a nap.





Gladly the sun stood already low and so we parked in the shade of the trees and bushes



so the heat was meanwhile bearable as also a light breeze started to blow



and so we were standing with many other cars on the road side waiting for some activity or movement



to be continued......

Beautiful birdies and then some awesome Lions

Action at the hide with all the birds and then some lion action too

A great variety again, Pumbaa!

I like the gymnastic dragonflies!

And hot lions at a kill!