A cat or a lifer a day keep the doctor away

[Richprins]

Lovely shots,Pumbaa, and all in the greenery!

I like the barbet and rolling ellies!

And so many herons!

[Pumbaa]

and again took more shots as originally planned.

Seems to be happening all the time The more the better

The bee-eaters make a beautiful colour palette

What are we going to do for the rest of the year without a new TT?

Those colour on the bee eaters always do fascinate me - It is stunning

[Pumbaa]

Lovely shots,Pumbaa, and all in the greenery!

I like the barbet and rolling ellies!

And so many herons!

It was so funny to watch that particular rolling ellie

[Pumbaa]

Saturday, 22. February 2020 – Shingwedzi

Driven roads: H1-6 – S52 – H1-6 – S101 – S135 – S134 – S50 – S135 – H1-6 – S101 - Confluence

During the night it was cool enough to sleep with open windows and what to say it was lovely as nearly the whole night from when I opened the windows we heard lions roaring and this even continued until it was time to stand up for our last full day in the park and this was again a fantastic one. We decided to drive once again our beloved S52 from the upper part and on our way back we can visit Red Rocks and after we crossed the causeway we stopped for a group of ground hornbills



followed by some very curious warthogs



who did not run straight away away



and even allowed us a couple of shots.



Then it got unfortunately a bit quiet and we stopped for a nicely posing bateleur in a dead tree



and we carried on until Timon suddenly braked abruptly and we really could not believe our eyes as on top of really many trees we spotted masses of white pelicans also another lifer for us.





It looked a bit funny how they tried to hold on to the small branches with their really huge webbed feet





but obviously they managed very well.

[Pumbaa]

It was such a fantastic sighting as the more often we looked up into the trees the more we discovered



some were hanging around in the tree tops with others



whilst others preferred staying alone.



A couple of other cars also arrived but most of the passengers were obviously not interested in the pelicans and carried on straight away



besides a family in a VW T2 who stayed nearly as long as we at that fantastic sighting





again it is once more really difficult to choose a favourite but we really enjoyed staying with them





as in the beginning we were a bit afraid that they might take off immediately but the longer we stayed





the more we were fascinated by these impressive birds.



to be continued………

[Lisbeth]

Pelicans!! All the time in the trees Was there water somewhere close?

[Richprins]

How amazing, Pumbaa!

Alf also saw them there once, I thought he was lying!

[Pumbaa]

Pelicans!! All the time in the trees Was there water somewhere close?

The Shingwedzi river was not far and all the time in the trees

[Pumbaa]

How amazing, Pumbaa!

Alf also saw them there once, I thought he was lying!

We also could not believe our eyes when we first noticed them

[Pumbaa]

and hop