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Love the honey badger and the wild cat, Flutterby,

and for sure all the birds especially with that many queleas - Always hard to believe how many of them are there

Also great shots of the saddle billed stork plus the waterbuck - Always regular sightings on the S100 but when you have bad luck same is all you will see there

You guys know the Wolhuter’s

A fairly long morning route

Nice jackal sighting

I heard the long drops at Muzandzeni are suspect again.

Unfortunately you missed out on the lion and leopard on the S126 and snow wihte was hiding

Great SBS pics

Lovely birds

PJL wrote:Shame the cats weren't playing along for you, but some very nice bird sightings . Nice close saddle-billed stork (we didn't see any this time ) and the raptors are great

Yep, we really battled around Satara!

nan wrote:super serie of birds... nice close up

Thanks nan.

Pumbaa wrote:Love the honey badger and the wild cat, Flutterby,

and for sure all the birds especially with that many queleas - Always hard to believe how many of them are there

Also great shots of the saddle billed stork plus the waterbuck - Always regular sightings on the S100 but when you have bad luck same is all you will see there

At least we saw some birds while we couldn't find cats!

Bushcraft wrote:You guys know the Wolhuter’s

A fairly long morning route

Nice jackal sighting

I heard the long drops at Muzandzeni are suspect again.

Unfortunately you missed out on the lion and leopard on the S126 and snow wihte was hiding

Great SBS pics

Our morning drives are long...we need to start making them shorter. We missed out on all the cats that others were seeing!

Lisbeth wrote:Lovely birds

Well, that's all we saw!

Day 3, 23 April 2017, Satara

We got to N'wanetsi, and Darryl (my dad's friend), and Andrea, Paul & Talia (our friends) had also just arrived. Andrea and family had come in at Croc Bridge that morning, and they then proceeded to tell us that they had seen the Big 5 before they had even got to Lower Sabie!!

Once we had finished all the greetings, we started getting breakfast together. We were cooking our breakfast - eggs, bacon, pork sausages & tomatoes - while Andrea & family were snacking on cheese, biscuits and fruit. However, even though they are Jewish, Talia couldn't resist the lure of the bacon.

Mommo, me & Andrea



Darryl & Mommo



Talia & the Brat



A loo with a view!



After enjoying our breakfast and catching up on all the gossip, we went our separate ways. We took the H6 back to camp, but nothing was stirring. Back at camp I found the Scops Owl outside the shop, but he wasn't interested in a photo shoot.



For our afternoon drive we decided to head up the H1-4, onto the S89 and back down the S90. This must rate as one of the worst drives we have ever done in Kruger, and apart from a video of the queleas, we did not take a single photo the whole afternoon!! Driving the top half of the S90, the grass was so long it was like driving through wheatfields! All we saw were millions of queleas, which although a spectactular sight, got quite tiring after a while! One flock flew across the road in front of us, and after about 5 minutes there were still thousands more to come! After that we told the rest to "flock off"...not that they listened!!

The Flutterlings of Africa

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Back at camp we got chatting to Dave again. They had had a great day, seeing wild dogs, cheetah on a kill, and wait for it...the white lion!! When we told Dave that the highlight of our day was queleas, he was genuinely shocked! After dinner, Mommo went to bed and the Brat went to shower, so I sat on the verandah with the lights off. It wasn't long before I saw the AWC sniffing at our bin. I started talking to it like I talk to our cat, and it sat and listened for a while before moving off. A short while later I got quite a scare as the honey badger ran past the table, about 4 feet from me! I don't think there's anyway they can get rid of these night raiders when this is the bin they provide!

Sounds like an extremely quiet afternoon
And not helpful when your friends find the big 5 and your neighbours also get some serious luck
But I suppose some days are just like that... Nice camp visitors - we had heard that they had removed the badgers and we didn't see them at all much to the kids disappointment

I like the "one eye" Owl

it must be to see nothing, while friends have a lot

... and the loo

Great to link up with mates while in the park

What’s up with the “loo with a view”

Eish, the H1-4/S90/S41 didn’t produce

“Flock off” I felt the same eventually

Hmmm Not a very lucky day

Catching up, Flutts!

Hello, Mike Goss! What a coincidence! Nice ink...

You look very sexy as always, Flutts! But the boy is going to look like Mr Bean when he's older!

Bacon and pork sausages at a Jewish meet?

Bet the old coots had a lot of stories to tell...

That boring drive is when you get out some tea and listen to Mr Clegg or Mr Simon...