From Floods and Surprises in River beds

[Pumbaa]

Ja, it can be VERY cosy in the rain if you are dry Pumbaa! (Excellent for sleeping.)

Lots of birds.

I like the Christmas Bush!

And love the shot of the males with the cars, what a sighting!

That sighting got better and better

[Pumbaa]

More wonderful sightings

Yes, after a quiet morning it got better and better

[Pumbaa]

The Diederik cuckoo is still on my bucket list.

Very common in all rest camps (Especially if there are Weaver colonies like say Lower Sabie) from Oct to April but silent generally after New Year (Breeding Generally over) Easily found by following the call in camp to its calling post

Pumbaa your 'Jacobin Cuckoo' is in fact a Levaillants Cuckoo a scarcer species so well done . In older bird books known as Striped Cuckoo because of striping below the chin ..clearly visible below the chin in your pic

I chose the wrong photo sorry ..but the weaver is a Village

Thanks so much for the correct id - Somtimes I do type faster than I think and forgot to correct the id of the cuckoo

[Pumbaa]

Nice sightings of the cuckoos. Fantastic to see big male lions in the road.

It was wonderful to see that many cuckoos during that trip

[Pumbaa]

Finally we had luck as they were obviously in the mood to take some break at DeLaporte as all of them decided to lay down a bit apart from each other and so the traffic eased extremely as each car decided to concentrate on one lion and so we fired away. The four male lions were in their appearance easily to be distinguished as we had a black-maned one



and two blondes who decided to lay side by side



and even all four together.



As they still stayed where they settled we now also were allowed to take some nice close ups



also from the blondes



and also from the back as it was such a fantastic sighting and all four were extreme relaxed and





then even our darling from the four, Mr. shock-headed mane, could be seen better as well but still stayed in the background so far



Whereas we were happy to take pictures of the resting black maned one



and from the blonde ones

[Pumbaa]

one of them obviously got a bit bored and stood up and chose another place behind a bush



out of sight for everyone so far but for all the other his mate still had no intention to leave his



resting place and even got a bit sleepy





and we took the chance to take some more close ups as so far not only him but also all the others were totally relaxed







also in view of the extreme traffic with the arriving of new cars and the leaving of cars who had enough from that sighting around them



to be continued…….

[harrys]

WOW what a wonderful sighting and the photos are beautiful

[Lisbeth]

Two couples of twins

[Mel]

Majestic!

Such a lucky sighting and great photos

[RogerFraser]

wow wonderful birds and then the Lions are