From Floods and Surprises in River beds

[Alf]

Again so many close up pictures of these birds.......

[Richprins]

Lots of youngsters and great birdies again, Pumbaa!

Love the gosling!

[Flutterby]

The gosling is very cute, and so lucky to see the Amur falcons!

[Lisbeth]

Lovely wildebeest family

The birds as always are gorgeous, especially the female and male amur falcons

Poor little gosling all alone

[Mel]

My, that gosling is cute! Hope its parents returned to take further care of it.
Strange that they left it in the first place.

Great ellie show and wonderful photos there

Anur falcons

[Pumbaa]

Again so many close up pictures of these birds.......

Yes we simply could not resist

Lots of youngsters and great birdies again, Pumbaa!

Love the gosling!

That gosling was the cutest

The gosling is very cute, and so lucky to see the Amur falcons!

Yes always great to see amur falcons as they often are only hanging around sporadically when we are in the park

[Pumbaa]

Lovely wildebeest family

The birds as always are gorgeous, especially the female and male amur falcons

Poor little gosling all alone

The gosling was very brave waiting all alone for its parents

My, that gosling is cute! Hope its parents returned to take further care of it.
Strange that they left it in the first place.

Great ellie show and wonderful photos there

Anur falcons

I so much hope they returned as the prvious days we always saw them together

[Pumbaa]

Today we not only used the toilet at N’wanetsi picnic spot but even walked up to the view point which was not worthwhile the previous due to the rainy weather and for sure the dam below was full and we simply enjoyed the view and the beautiful trees





and where are rocks also a lot of lizards were around as well taking a sunbath in the lovely sun.



In the distance waterbucks and impalas could be seen as well and they enjoyed also the peaceful morning.



We indeed stayed quite a while there and during our walk down we even discovered more lizards





and at the picnic spot a couple of white browed scrub robins.



Then also a visit at Sweni bird hide was a must an earlier visit made no sense the previous days due to the rain and the road closure and today with the sunshine we had the best weather to make most out of it but on our way to same we came across a great number of giraffes

[Pumbaa]

and between their long legs



we even spotted zebras



as well as impalas en masse.



We have never seen the dam at Sweni bird hide that full which was a fantastic sighting



and we soon scanned the area and discovered a yellow billed stork not far from a sunbathing crocodile



and a group of hippos out of which a hippo mum plus her little one stood out.



Opposite the hide in a dense root system we spotted on the second view a green backed heron on its nest



and then the hippo mom and her little one put up a show



as they were busy in a contest of getting the mouth as wide open as possible



and we simply enjoyed their presence and were very much entertained.



to be continued……

[Alf]

Cute little hippo