Africa Wild

Flutterby wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 8:38 am Lovely views.

Those views are always breathtaking and that is why we love that area that much

but did not come far as a group of giraffes was once again blocking the road
and as usual their crossing took a bit longer – I simply love the mountains in the background
and we were allowed to take some close ups as well as most of them reached the other side
but for sure the youngsters we extreme curious

and peeped up from behind a smaller bush quite often.
Around the next corner we noticed a marabou stork congress as an uncountable number of them were running around
on the catch for insects.
It was amazing to watch as all of them were wading around peacefully and very relaxed

and from time to time we even captured more of them
and once again we had this sighting nearly all alone for us and could take an incredible number of shots as most of them could be seen quite close

and some of them even had time to take a sunbath.
Finally we continued and we even noticed a pair of chinspot batis out of which him could be photographed whilst she was not willing to do so
and at one of the many causeways we had to cross on that road we again found another malachite kingfisher who just shortly caught something creepy

and was ready for more.
I cannot remember having seen so many of these colourful birds throughout the park ever before it was amazing
and also here we spent a lot of time photographing our nicely posing feathered friend.

We again drove each loop you could drive leading closer to the Letaba river and there finally we spotted out first saddle billed stork couple during that trip
and at Engelhard dam a great white egret was around as well as grey herons
and finally the egret had luck in catching something.
to be continued with a nice surprise in a river bed…….

Pumbaa!

Agreed about the mountains in the background...makes all the difference1

Birdies all over, and disgusting storks eating disgusting crickets!

The malachite is perfect1

The marabou has the ugliest head in the block

Perfect pics of malachite kingfishers

Lovely Malachite!