Africa Wild

Idyllic shots of the landscape

Lovely black stork and other birds

Lots of long legs

Interesting stuff, Pumbaa!

I love how the stork stands on one leg!

And a giraffe and baboon combo!

Nice how you stop for the "lesser" sightings like the saddlebill, one gets rewarded anyway, as you did!

Missed a few weeks of episodes .Lovely sightings of the Birds ,the dragonflies and the time alone with the Leopard

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 4:16 pm Idyllic shots of the landscape

Lovely black stork and other birds

Lots of long legs

We were so happy that finally after all the rain the sun came out so we could enjoy the beautiyful landscape overall

Richprins wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 6:15 pm Interesting stuff, Pumbaa!

I love how the stork stands on one leg!

And a giraffe and baboon combo!

Nice how you stop for the "lesser" sightings like the saddlebill, one gets rewarded anyway, as you did!

We always do stop for the lesser sightings It in fact took a while until the road was cleared from the giarffe / baboon combo

RogerFraser wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 7:51 pm Missed a few weeks of episodes .Lovely sightings of the Birds ,the dragonflies and the time alone with the Leopard

That leopard sighting was still one of the highlights during that trip

but also this road has got its preference as we reached Mazithi dam which was brimful and after all the rain with water everywhere also not such a good choice but normally at such dams is always something to be seen and so it was here with another little grebe, weavers busy in refurbishing their nests



whereas must say that most of the sightings were a bit far away here but we spotted grey herons, carmine bee eaters,



and whilst we already continued a European roller landed. Luckily Kumana dam was also not far and here we soon discovered Egyptian goose



whilst also here all the other sightings where a bit too far away such as a group of ground hornbills. After a while we carried on and came across a couple of very well hidden elephants



and had the pleasure in taking a longer break in front of a bush watching the come and go from a lot of Carmine bee eaters





who were busy in catching insects





and sometimes they were even successful.



We were happy in stopping again for dung beetles



and even got the glimpse of two cheetahs a bit too far away as the air was already flickering



at least we saw some and took only a couple of proof shots. A pity that they were so far away.

Luckily the two steenbokkies who came across next were extreme close and not that shy so we stayed with them for a while





as they allowed us so willingly to take that many pictures.





That area was now extreme open and the grass not that high and so a lot of general game could be seen nearly everywhere such as zebras, impalas as well as wildebeests





and also they were located extreme close to the road







so we stayed quite a while with them and simply enjoyed they presence and watched them quite extensively.







To be continued……………..

Nice shots of the bee-eater

A real pity that the cheetahs were so far away

The steenboks are so pretty. Look as if they are smiling

Lots of stripes They have the habit of always standing very close to each other

What a difference the shorter grass makes, Pumbaa!

A nice variety again.

Love the Gyppo goose in flight, plus the steenbok, not so easy!

And cheetah!