Africa Wild

Marabous are really not the pretties of our feathered friends

So far I have never noticed that the carmine bee-eaters have a relatively long tail
But lots of nice birds again anyways. And even if the story behind the kite is a bit sad,
the pictures are rather brilliant

BBJ

Poor queleas, but still a great sighting!

And lots of other nice pics.

This was quite a catch up

Lots of brilliant photos....as usual

Especially appreciated:
great spotted cuckoo
Levaillant’s cuckoo
Incredible how flat the lions manage to seem flat
Baobab
Grey headed kingfisher
Bru bru
Lovely flowers with butterfly
Melba finch
Jackals playing
Lots of nice raptors
Mousebirds
How wonderfully green everything looks

Almost time for the next visit

wow missed a lot

like the puddle bath, Fish Eagle, Cuckoos, Baobab
love Vulture bath
love too flower and Butterfly, Scops Owl , Melba Finch
too much Boons
Dragonfly, the red one and love the Mousebird

Richprins wrote:Lifetime scenes around the quelea colony, Pumbaa!

Very cute the little wildebeest!

Looks like the ground hornbill was under a mate with tummy problems!

Indeed looked like tummy problems - Only noticed is now

Mel wrote:Marabous are really not the pretties of our feathered friends

So far I have never noticed that the carmine bee-eaters have a relatively long tail
But lots of nice birds again anyways. And even if the story behind the kite is a bit sad,
the pictures are rather brilliant

BBJ

Sometimes the long tail of the Carmine is not that clear visible - So although we do see them often I find it always fascinating

Flutterby wrote:Poor queleas, but still a great sighting!

And lots of other nice pics.

I also felt for the quelea

Lisbeth wrote:This was quite a catch up

Lots of brilliant photos....as usual

Especially appreciated:
great spotted cuckoo
Levaillant’s cuckoo
Incredible how flat the lions manage to seem flat
Baobab
Grey headed kingfisher
Bru bru
Lovely flowers with butterfly
Melba finch
Jackals playing
Lots of nice raptors
Mousebirds
How wonderfully green everything looks

Almost time for the next visit

Indeed I am already counting the day - only 47 days left Where have you been that long? - I already missed you

nan wrote:wow missed a lot

like the puddle bath, Fish Eagle, Cuckoos, Baobab
love Vulture bath
love too flower and Butterfly, Scops Owl , Melba Finch
too much Boons
Dragonfly, the red one and love the Mousebird

I also missed you, nan - but great to have you back now

This time they preferred to stay in the tree.



We also saw kudus, more Carmine bee eaters and an elephant



and then we had a great time in photographing the masses of red billed queleas







in that area and as already mentioned they occurred through out the park in such an amount it was breathtaking to stop for them when hundreds of them flew over the road from right to left





only to stop later for more that flew from left to right and this continued in fact quite a couple of times.



It was such a spectacle and we were so happy that we could photograph them when they rested in masses along the roadside on bushes.

More feeding giraffes could be seen as well





as well as bateleurs a bit too far away. Another funny sighting was a francolin mom who crossed in front of us the H6 with her only thumbnail big (as long as you speak from big here) chick, Mom realized our car and ran immediately into the bushes but forgot her mini me which simply hunched up on the road and if you did not know where to look for same was invisible but gladly we know where same was, switched the engine off and finally mom returned to her lost chick and collected same and both walked away.



We still had to laugh during the further drive as it was so funny when mom walked straight into the bush for safety but forgot her chick. The clouds looked threatening but gladly it stay dry the rest of the day.



More giraffes could be seen as well as lots of zebras



and many groups of impalas





not to forget another elephant but compared to the masses of elephants we saw the previous day we only saw quite few that day.



to be continued....

Your 'forgetful mother' looks like a Buttonquail, maybe a Kurrichane (pale eye)?

A very funny story, and I also love the shots of the Queleas.

Hope you can get your TT finished before you have another one to start writing!