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Love the hippo with the jacket. Your birdie looks like a Red-billed Firefinch.

Great couple of posts Harrys.

Your birdie under the bridge is a Wood Sandpiper.

The Korhaan is Red-crested and I agree with Flutts on the firefinch.

Love the plated lizard pic and the baboon/impala scene looks so tranquil.

-O at the hippo's new coat.

More Letaba Photos:

Hippo with a map :



Baffaloe posing for a pic:



Zebra posing for a pic:



Young Waterbuc:



Some Ducklings:



Crested barbet:



Dove:







Some Big foots:









Girrafes:



Kudu:



Thats it for now, more a bit later....

Nice pics Harry!

Your is a Pied kingfisher.

Soooo Letaba continues.....

Bluewildebeest:



I just love this beautifull tree:



We saw this Eagle munching on some flying ants but I cant find it in my bird book, maybe a juvinile eagle of some sort:



Tataruka thought this plant was beautifull and took a photo:



We decided to travel down to Satara for the day and here is some pics:

At Olifants.... note the Eagle:



Landscapes:







Camelion in the road:



Eagle on the Olifants bridge:



Croc baking in the sun:



Egyptian Geese:



Warthog:





Ellies in a huddle:



Ellies having a dip, these guys kept us entertained for about a hour:





Our first Rhino:



Rhino, Giraffe, Bluewildebeest and Zebra:



Unknown birdie, but we saw lots of them near animals feeding in the grass:



Baboon:



Thats it for now, later I will wrap up our stay at Letaba.........

again nice episode
the first "juvenil"... is not a juvenil, is a Tawny Eagle, +/- pale form
this one in flight, over Olifants, easy to recognize with the tail in "V" is the same on the bridge, Yellow-billed Kite
and the last one, nice one, Wattled Starling
superb Baobab, one of my prefered tree and nice view over the Olifants river

Last of Letaba.......

Near Satara this Tusker:



The 3 Musketeers:



YYeeesssss??:



Tawny Eagle:



Lone Vulture:



Ground Hornbill:



AAAAAAHHHWWW:



One of my favourites....Croc on a rock:



Saddlebilled Stork:



Secretary Bird:



Olifants River:





Mischief......:



And that my friends was some of our sightings at Letaba and seroundings

Next up Shingwedzi....

Missed a few posts here Harry. Nice to catch up though.

Nice views of the Olifants and love the one with the kite soaring by.

The 3 musketeers is great. -O

Think your last pic of a Tawny Eagle is a Steppe Eagle - yellow gape extends behind the eye. Great sighting.

Can't wait to find out what you saw at Shingwedzi.

Shingwedzi 5 Dec to 8 Dec 2012....:

After a not so peacefull nights sleep(we had 3 young men next to us who played some games and giggled like little girls till 2 in the morning , they went to sleep after I explained to them what I will do to them if they don't shut up and be quiet..... oh I had my ax with me )we packed up and left at 6:00 heading for Shingwedzi.

Here is some photos:

Sunrise:



This Elephant didn't like the Buffaloes intruding on his waterhole :



Buffaloes and Warthog coming for a drink after the grumpy Ellie left in a dust cloud:





And what are you up to sir :



Bookworm arriving at Shingwedzi in Miss Denty :



Setting up camp.......that's when the fun started and Dad was not allowed to help pitching the tent

Tatarukas thoughts....where does this go:



After lots of sweat and some mumbling and offcourse some help from Dad the tent(and Bookworm and Tatarukas home for 4 nights)was pitched and ready to be occupied:



After setting up camp and having a or 2 we went for a swim and relaxed till 15:00 and then our late afternoon trip on the Kanniedood road............

To be continued.......

Shingwedzi.......:

We set out on the Kanniedood rd and this is what we saw:

Young Nyala:



birdie:



Very empty Kanniedood dam:



Fish Eagle in flight:



It's a wonderfull life :



Waterbuck and Saddlebilled stork:



One of our sightings of the trip......Cheetah





Photo from our campsite of a very dry Shingwedzi



That was photos from our first day at Shingwedzi, we saw a Lioness with a collar almost at the camp gate in the river bed but there was too much trees in the way so unfortunately no photo

More to follow soon