Africa Wild

Stunning rhino sighting

It is the first time that I see a rhino feeding Lovely pics

Birds

All nice, green and clean

WOW! Lovely rhino scene there (and again great colours )
I also like Bob the Builder, uhm, weaver And the chanting widowbird

Also never seen them drinking, Pumbaa!

How rare!

I also always love animals in the reeds, for some reason!

How was Afsaal congestion-wise?

Flutterby wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 10:52 am What a lovely sighting of the baby rhino drinking!

And such beautiful scenery everywhere!

It was breathtaking to see the park that green again

Alf wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 11:10 am Stunning rhino sighting

To see a rhino drinking was also a first for us

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 12:37 pm It is the first time that I see a rhino feeding Lovely pics

Birds

All nice, green and clean

It was simply fantastic to see finally the little rhino taking a drink

Mel wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 5:29 pm WOW! Lovely rhino scene there (and again great colours )
I also like Bob the Builder, uhm, weaver And the chanting widowbird

Yes we indeed had luck with the sun

Richprins wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:03 pm Also never seen them drinking, Pumbaa!

How rare!

I also always love animals in the reeds, for some reason!

How was Afsaal congestion-wise?

Me too and more reed birdies to come - For a Saturday morning is was congestion-wise not that bad - Mostly OSV and we saw Afsaal far fuller

Once again we came across more white winged widowbirds which could be found nearly everywhere in the park this year



and finally we reached Biyamiti weir also one of our favourite places in that area.



The water was still flowing more than nicely over the weir and consequently that attracted a lot of different bird species. A black stork was around,



as well as a sandpiper taking a bath,





a grey heron allowed us some nice close ups,



a hamerkop was busy in fishing



and also a green backed heron finally appeared on the scene.





The grass and reeds were long this year and attracted a lot of red bishops which we also could find nearly everywhere throughout the park.



This bird is always fascinating us anew and we could watch and observe them for hours. I simply love it when they display like that.



Luckily for us it was trafficwise quiet and we already positioned our car that way that all the cars which might appear could pass easily and we do not need to change our position.

It was simply so much to see and photograph and so our cameras started to glow again



The grey heron and the black stork



posed as mad and so did the hamerkop



and also an egret could be seen as well.



It was a sunny and hot day but still bearable during the midday heat but the heron started already to pant





but somehow each bird was waiting for the fish.





After we got enough shots from the heron, stork, egret and hamerkop we concentrated again onto our red ones -



the red bishops and it got more and more difficult to drag ourselves away from the weir as we saw that much and had such a great time there but finally we carried on.



For sure we could not pass a large herd of impalas without stopping, taking pictures and



simply enjoying the beauty of these antelopes.



We noticed lots of dragonflies on rocks



to be continued.....

The causeways are always spectacular if there is water of course

Also the red bishops are nice. They always look as if they are dressed too warmly with a hood and scarf of wool

Wonderful birds

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