Browns in Kruger October 2016

[PJL]

More great sightings and story-telling BC

Your leopard numbers never cease to amaze me. But those otters were a great find

[Richprins]

So fast!

Ja, never seen otters...best sighting!

The night atmosphere is a good thing to teach the kids, IMO!

You can blunder through the bush inside camps at night. If there is a faulty predator around it will get you regardless, just bad luck and unbelievably unlikely!

Only been to Byamiti once, but it is clear that available water in dry times would make a big difference!

I like the optimistic dung beetle!

Looks like you have found a real hankering for the golf club, and I can't blame you!

[Bushcraft]

Thanks Lisbeth, Mel, leachy, Alf, PRWIN, Flutts, PJL and RP once again for commenting and popping in

New project started today, so RP got his wish as I was forced to slow down, but up to speed again from Friday

[Bushcraft]

Thanks Lisbeth, Mel, leachy, Alf, PRWIN, Flutts, PJL and RP once again for commenting and popping in

New project started today, so RP got his wish as I was forced to slow down, but up to speed again from Friday

[Bushcraft]

6th Biyamiti to Lower Sabie continued

We arrived at Skukuza just before 9am, so it was a little early to park off at the golf club until around 1pm, so we decided to do a little of the S1 which we hadn’t ventured down for a while and a few km down the road a cruising leopard appeared, so the adrenalin was up again.







The Cow then started shouting about a bird which had landed next us. I didn’t know what was potting, but thought I better show interest and then I did get interested when I realised that it wasn’t one of the normal models we see in the south. I believe this is a Klaas’s Cuckoo.





The leopard was still parking off below us, but the crowd was growing and it didn’t look like he was going to move in a hurry and it was still too early for brunch, so we decided to head down the S65 which we hadn’t done yet and just past halfway Albert, then the other rats all started shouting “Leopard! It’s in the tree!” but as I stopped he bailed out the tree.

I was now huffing and puffing because if we had been 10 seconds earlier we would have got a pic at least. His kill was still in the tree, so I turned and positioned ourselves next to another car and switched off.



Minutes later there was a movement in the bush to the left of the tree which got us all hyped up again as a leopard’s head was poking through the bush. It was again a mission to get pics which resulted in the Cow and I having a mini scrap as it was on her side, but fortunately the leopard then decided to cruise in and sat at the base of the tree. He parked off for a while, had a scratch like a dog and then moved off into the bush.







We then decided to continue down to the H1-1/S65 intersection before turning to head back and at the intersection we spotted 2 cars up the road which had stopped so decided to check it out and to our surprise it was another leopard deep in the bush and it had taken out an impala.



I now got seriously frustrated with my camera as I couldn’t get the damn thing to focus through the twigs and it kept zooming in and out of its own accord while it searched for focus which only made me wilder, so I chucked the camera at the Cow and stole Hawkeyes point and shoot camera which is more forgiving in the hands of the clueless.





To be continued

[steamtrainfan]

Yikes, is this now three leopards in the space of a few hours.

Two with a kill.

Is the bird not a Didericks Cuckoo?

Brilliant photos of it as they do not normally like posing for photos.

[Lisbeth]

Wow a Klaas’s Cuckoo (Look at the eyes, STF )

Look, I am not going to talk leopards anymore ( )

[Pumbaa]

Maybe in the beginning the drive was quiet which definitely can happen when leaving Biyamiti that way but then leopard after leopard and even otters and Klaas cuckoo

and WoW Buchcraft

[Alf]

It's not normal to see so many leopards in just a few hours

Are you showing us leopard pictures from previous trips

[Twigga]

Browns !



Still doing the "ketchup" on page 12

All this cat sightings & the kill!!! WOWI!!! on which road was that again?

We were planning to go to Talamats in January, I don't think so ! Not with that expensive construction site

You need to write a book

"Spotting" for dummies

All that spots