Africa Wild

The white squill really do make for lovely pics!

Great shots again PJL glad to see no photo's of Caracals

Flutterby wrote:The white squill really do make for lovely pics!

Certainly does
Very strange plant indeed

PRWIN wrote:Great shots again PJL glad to see no photo's of Caracals

Hehe... no luck with caracal this time. We see them a lot more in the winter months

Strange time to head for the restaurant I would have protested

Great junior ellie pics and then another wing-nut

Plenty lion sightings , the names confuse me

That wartie has serious tusks

I wonder why black-shouldered kites always find such awkward places to rest

It really looks as if Aardlam is bowing before her king

The tall white squills make a nice scenic touch to the pics

The warty has quite a pair of tusks

The lioness seems to have a weird tail end colour?

Are the squills indigenous?

Fascinating, this!

Not sure if you mentioned it on the Addo Sightings thread before... but who did Mel Gibson fight with that they both sport scars in their faces like that?
4 years ago they were like teenagers without any flaws and these days they are really majestic and very male.

NIce tusker shot!!! And you always have to stop for black shouldered kites.

Awesome lion shots in the white squill - Those males do in fact look very majestic

and then warthog and buffalo

PJL

Bushcraft wrote:Strange time to head for the restaurant I would have protested

Great junior ellie pics and then another wing-nut

Plenty lion sightings , the names confuse me

That wartie has serious tusks

Yes the restaurant timing wasn't my idea but there were some family politics which I didn't want to get involved in
The lions are normally named after park staff - though the original ones brought from the KTP were generally named after places/waterholes there

Lisbeth wrote:I wonder why black-shouldered kites always find such awkward places to rest

It really looks as if Aardlam is bowing before her king

The tall white squills make a nice scenic touch to the pics

The warty has quite a pair of tusks

You're right - the BSKs do tend to find interesting perches

Richprins wrote:The lioness seems to have a weird tail end colour?

Are the squills indigenous?

Fascinating, this!

Yes, Aardlam is quite easy to identify due to the white tip to her tail. I presume she lost the end of it at some early stage of her life as it's always been like that
I'm not entirely sure whether the squill is indigenous. You get it up in some places in Zim, so perhaps it is

Mel wrote:Not sure if you mentioned it on the Addo Sightings thread before... but who did Mel Gibson fight with that they both sport scars in their faces like that?
4 years ago they were like teenagers without any flaws and these days they are really majestic and very male.

NIce tusker shot!!! And you always have to stop for black shouldered kites.

Mel & Gibson got the scars mainly from each other
They were scrapping earlier this year with Norman & Zwaai, but most of the recent scratches are from fights with each other over mating rights with Aardlam

Pumbaa wrote:Awesome lion shots in the white squill - Those males do in fact look very majestic

and then warthog and buffalo

PJL

Thanks Pumbaa - the males really are magnificent animals. Particularly now they have reached maturity