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Great sightings Flutts and beautiful photos

That Wartie has inpressive tusks

Already two instalments - you were busy, Flutts.

Great sightings so far! Like the acacia pied barbet - beautiful bird. Same goes for the touraco.

Wonder if the nyala chick found his mother amongst the impalas though.

nan, Lis, Amoli, harrys, Mel

Some of my impressions of the morning...

Seeing the animals through kwaMalibala hide.



An Nyala bull quenching his thirst in the early moring.



At kuMasinga hide we saw alot more Nyala.



This Turaco came and sat right next to the waters edge, so got some great close up shots of him, but of course I missed him flying away!





And just before we left the hide, the wildebeest made their entrance!

Great shot the first one from the hide

it was busy at the hide
even a Touraco

sjoe !!! seem to be lots of "willebeests"



interesting composition of the photo from the hide bushy !!!!!



fab fire foto flutters !!!

Great Turaco sighting and pics

Good photos, Flutts!

That young bull now is a good pic to put up under "Nyala", so as to contrast with the "horned females"!

The old mangy impala was attacked by something, I think, looking at the scratch marks and nose, possibly a leopard but a while ago?

nan wrote:poor little Nyala.. dosn't know to search strips

nan... you always give me a giggle!!

Lisbeth wrote:Great that you had such a pleasant trip

What a lot of things you saw in a few hours

Good bird sightings

Lis, I really enjoyed Mkuze...no big cats or ellies, but always something to see.

Amoli wrote:a lot of animals and birds in a short time.. great.

Wow for the Arcarcia Pied Barbet and the Touraco

True Amoli, this was all before midday!

harrys wrote:Great sightings Flutts and beautiful photos

That Wartie has inpressive tusks

He does indeed. Thanks for popping in!

Mel wrote:Already two instalments - you were busy, Flutts.

Great sightings so far! Like the acacia pied barbet - beautiful bird. Same goes for the touraco.

Wonder if the nyala chick found his mother amongst the impalas though.

Busy doing the wrong things! The chick did find his mom!

leachy wrote:

sjoe !!! seem to be lots of "willebeests"



interesting composition of the photo from the hide bushy !!!!!



fab fire foto flutters !!!

Thanks leachy...there was a lot of game around...especially at the hides!

Bushcraft wrote:Great Turaco sighting and pics

Thanks BC.

Richprins wrote:Good photos, Flutts!

That young bull now is a good pic to put up under "Nyala", so as to contrast with the "horned females"!

The old mangy impala was attacked by something, I think, looking at the scratch marks and nose, possibly a leopard but a while ago?

That sounds plausible! Will post the nyala pics soon!

30 August, Mkuze

Still at kuMasinga Hide.

Emerald Spotted Wood-dove & Red-faced Mousebird



The Turaco also came down to the water.



Black-collared Barbet, Cape Glossy Starling and Red-faced Mousebirds.



Then a family of warties came sprinting down, but these two made it first!



This one wanted a bit of attention!



A couple of Sunbirds were flitting around but it was really hard to get good pics because the wind was howling and blowing them all over the place!

We think these are Purple-banded Sunbirds.





A Sombre Greenbul?



Lots of willies!



You can see there was lots to keep us busy at this hide...we were running from one side to the other to see everything! But we decided to head back to camp to unpack and freshen up. We were booked into the 2 bed huts, so the Brat and I shared and my dad had his own unit. There were very clean communal ablutions and a very large communal kitchen. Each hut even has its own satellite dish and a TV stand and all the cables!!