Africa Wild

3rd Lion's sighting of the day... seems you had a lot of chance
like the butterfly

I was once also in No 23 at B&D... an Ellie comes and cut the tree just in front of the bungalow

like too the Ground Hornbill
and the Terrapins... askin

Wonderful sightings all round

Super Kudu and stunning of the butterfly

More Lions how lucky is that!

What a nice lion sighting and lots of butterflies, how pretty it must have been

Catching up Pumbaa

First sighting a lion

Couple amur falcons

That crested barbet looks like it needs some hair gel

Sleepy elephant or one that has bitten off more than it can chew

Great to catch lions having a drink

Fantastic pics as per normal

Love the drinking lions...something I still want to get pics of!

Richprins wrote:Nice day indeed!

There was actually an article in the paper mentioning the surge in butterflies in the park this wet season!

The one lion looks a bit skinny...not so easy now after the drought!

It was in fact amazing to see that masses and that variety of all the butterflies

nan wrote:3rd Lion's sighting of the day... seems you had a lot of chance
like the butterfly

I was once also in No 23 at B&D... an Ellie comes and cut the tree just in front of the bungalow

like too the Ground Hornbill
and the Terrapins... askin

We were very pleased about three Lion sightings during our very first full day as normally it always takes a couple of days to get a decent cat sighting overall No 23 is very well located

All-Nature wrote:Wonderful sightings all round

Super Kudu and stunning of the butterfly

More Lions how lucky is that!

It was simply a more than brilliant first day with all these sightings

Lisbeth wrote:What a nice lion sighting and lots of butterflies, how pretty it must have been

It was amazing to see the high green grass, the beautiful flowers and the colourful butterflies especially compared to last year's drought

Bushcraft wrote:Catching up Pumbaa

First sighting a lion

Couple amur falcons

That crested barbet looks like it needs some hair gel

Sleepy elephant or one that has bitten off more than it can chew

Great to catch lions having a drink

Fantastic pics as per normal

Bushcraft As if only to be back was already enough but that very first day was simply magnificent

Flutterby wrote:Love the drinking lions...something I still want to get pics of!

It was also for us the first time we saw in Kruger lions came to drink - It was a magic evening drive

Sunday, 11. February 2017, Berg en Dal

Roads we visited today: S110 – H3 – S118 – S119 – S25 – S121 – H3 - S110

After a wonderful night’s rest and a fresh brewed coffee we turned into the direction of Matjulu and right outside the gate we spotted a still resting waterbuck male not willing to stand up yet.



Close to the waterhole itself we were already flagged down by another car to look carefully into the bushes opposite the waterhole and there they were again our lions from yesterday evening.



One of them was the whole time nearly invisible and the other two were only visible from one spot so after we got our shots we left as also all the people in the other cars wanted to have a look onto them and as it on top did not look as if they might move we did not stay that long



although we were again happy that we could have another look onto them and once again started the day again with lions as second sighting. Then it was again time for the birds and as especially the sun came up from behind the hills in that area the light was brilliant again – a European roller simply had to be captured.



The vultures were already taking a sun bath



and Mrs. Zorro simply enjoyed the new morning.



We then came across two rhinos, a mom plus youngster



although the youngster was not that small any longer but is was a more than fascinating sighting to be that close to these beauties again.



What had to be done simply had to be done!



What a relief!

The buffalo bulls in their private spa simply chilled the day away



and on the bridge across the Mlambane a group of kudu males one after the other popped out of the bushes in the riverbed and we once again could not believe our eyes in seeing the bushes again that lush and green



and this was obviously also the opinion of the kudus as a collective smacking started.



It was a wonderful sighting to see such handsome and beautiful male together and it was more than lovely that we were allowed to take a lot of close ups from them



also from all their hitchhikers.



Hello!



We had to drag ourselves away from the kudus as all of them were so photogenic. On our further way we had another sighting of rhinos but a bit far away but the cute spotted flycatcher which we spotted next was close enough for a shot



as well as this brown raptor.



to be continued.....

What a nice group of beautiful male kudus

The rhino has a super horn

I think that the raptor is a wahlberg's eagle

Lovely light on the roller