Addo Outings 2016

[Pumbaa]

Awesome jackal and black shoulder kite shots, PJL

[Flutterby]

Lovely pics!

[PJL]

Thanks Pumbaa & Flutts

We were up early the next morning and it was still dark as we entered the park - it makes quite a difference now that the summer gate opening time is 5:30am

It was again rather quiet but after an hour we came across a lone buffalo at Marion Baree. Getting into the water to drink was obviously less effort than doing so from the sides






There was a jackal hanging around, which we thought was probably the same one we had seen the day before. After a while it popped out into an open area and seemed to be carrying what looked like some kind of dead mole

We were then treated to a typical dog display (our dog at home does exactly the same thing when she catches moles), where it threw the mole around in the air and then rolled around on it... doesn't sound like a good habit, but it was fun to watch














There had been storms brewing in the area and one came quite suddenly overhead. A big crash of thunder sent the poor jackal scampering off with a bit of a scared whine

[Flutterby]

The jackal put on quite a show for you.

[Richprins]

Fascinating behaviour indeed!

Our first mole sighting on AW!

[Mel]

Magnificent captures of the BBJ! In both instalments

Also love the BSK. Hoping to get to see one of those as well... or eight.

[PJL]

Also love the BSK. Hoping to get to see one of those as well... or eight.

There were a lot of them around Mel

[Lisbeth]

Great sequence of the jackal being

The black-shouldered kite is a beaut

[PJL]

We had a good look around the south of the park to see if there was any sign of Josie and her sub-adult family, but again everything was very quiet. There were some buffalo bulls along Harveys loop and near the tree at the end of the loop there was a small herd in the open



Ngulube was empty except for a few zebra and hartebeest so we trundled back up into the north of the park to explore the Zuurkop area where a young elephant bull came marching towards us



It was time to go and pack up our tent but I received a message that the cheetah had been spotted. We had never managed to see them since their break-in about a year and a half ago, so we decided the tent packing would just have to wait. They were near the east gate of the park, about 1km away from us so very difficult to see



They weren't doing much so we decided to head back and pack up so that we could try and find them again after lunch

[Lisbeth]

What a beautiful tree all alone in the open

The cheetahs are there all right