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Re: Groundhog Day: Pretoriuskop Over and Over Winters 2018-23

Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2024 4:26 pm
by Richprins
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Soon back on the tar at Numbi Gate!


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In good condition, these buffs...plenty to eat!


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Re: Groundhog Day: Pretoriuskop Over and Over Winters 2018-23

Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2024 4:27 pm
by Richprins
Some babies too!

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I remember there was a striped kingfisher at this sighting too,only my second one, in exactly the same area as the first a few years before! But no pic...

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And this quite rare in winter! :shock:


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Re: Groundhog Day: Pretoriuskop Over and Over Winters 2018-23

Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2024 4:31 pm
by Richprins
Then home for a grand brunch...

Afternoon walk, with this coughed-up something hairy... -O-


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That year there was the shot-hole borer scare, an early warning trap! O-/

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And Dadprins and Prinswilliam's turn to braai! X#X

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Re: Groundhog Day: Pretoriuskop Over and Over Winters 2018-23

Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2024 5:25 pm
by Lisbeth
Funny how the horns of the young buffalos are straight and growing get a completely other shape.

A striped kingfisher :shock: No pic no believe O**

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Re: Groundhog Day: Pretoriuskop Over and Over Winters 2018-23

Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2024 11:27 pm
by Pumbaa
Thanks Richprins,

it is always great to see such a great herd of buffaloes ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^

Re: Groundhog Day: Pretoriuskop Over and Over Winters 2018-23

Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 4:16 pm
by Richprins
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Next morning cloudy again...we did a longer trip down the H1-1...

Shitlhave!

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Very full for June! :shock:

(There was a lone buffalo on the other side...important to remember...!)

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Onward!

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And quickly at Transport Dam...look at all the waterbuck! :-0

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Re: Groundhog Day: Pretoriuskop Over and Over Winters 2018-23

Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 4:19 pm
by Richprins
Ahhhh....so scenic!

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A pied kingfisher in action, if one uses one's imagination! lol


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Back on the way home...also scenic!

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At Shitlhave turnoff a chap stopped us and advised us to go down to the dam for A Surprise! :shock: :ty:


And what was this... :shock: :shock: :shock:


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Re: Groundhog Day: Pretoriuskop Over and Over Winters 2018-23

Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 9:19 pm
by nan
is it a question ?
so reply : Lions... nothing extraordinaire \O

Re: Groundhog Day: Pretoriuskop Over and Over Winters 2018-23

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2024 2:28 pm
by Lisbeth
Transport Dam is charming ^Q^

The lions was a surprise, if you did not know they were there ;-)

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Re: Groundhog Day: Pretoriuskop Over and Over Winters 2018-23

Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2024 9:44 pm
by Pumbaa
Both dams are lovely and always worth to spent time at \O

Thanks Richprins 0()