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Lovely honey badger sighting....in the wild

I think that your little raptor is a shikra (little banded goshawk).

Lovely view on the river

Flutterby wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 7:43 am Great sighting of the honey badger!

I believe you see less game when it is cold.

And add a strong wind to the mix and you see nothing. This could have been our problem as we had many windy and cold days.

Richprins wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 9:00 am Lots of sightings, stf!

Nice to have a long view of a badger!

That is a huge warthog!

Where is that pan exactly?

Love the sceneries!

That pan is on S131 about 6 west of the H9.

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 10:32 am Lovely honey badger sighting....in the wild

I think that your little raptor is a shikra (little banded goshawk).

Lovely view on the river

Not often one see the honey badger in the wild. We were very lucky that the gentleman told us to look on the other side of the bridge.

Thank you for the raptor ID.

06 June 2018 - Part 1/3.

We left Letaba and travelled the following route:

H1-6, H15 to Makhadzi for breakfast, back to H1-6, S144, S143, S50, S49 and to check in at Mopani. Our first time here.

Please ID this for us.



Is this a juvenile Magpie Shrike? Seems to have too much white?



"Will you marry me?"



Our only clear photo of a B.B.J.



At Makhadzi picnic site.



Buffalo and elephant here were as numerous here as impala are in the south.



Tsessebe playing catch at Malopenyana.



A BIG elephant on the road to Mopani.



To be continued.

Caught up, steamtrainfan,

and must say love the variety of birds you saw and the pictures you of them and then simply love your landscape shots - Sigh

Great on your honey badger sighting

I would say your first bird is a Brown Snake-eagle, and the shrike looks partially leucistic.

Another nice tusker.

It is a nice trippie that to Makhadzi, nice and quiet?


Another tucker elephant!

Maybe black chested snake eagle too? Certainly one or the other.

Good to see so many tsessebe.

I agree with Flutterby on the IDs! some magpie shrikes have dorsal pattern

Looks like a tusker that one too

Cute little squirrel

A huge thank you to everybody for their comments.

06 June - Part 2/3.

A wind blown Bataleur.



Bowkerkop water hole.







Close to Mopani Camp.



Joan standing on the Tropic of Capricorn.



Seen on the S143.



Seen at Nshawu No. 3





Seen at Mooiplaas.



To be continued.

06 June 2018 - Part 3/3






Back at Mooiplaas in the late afternoon. This is Kaleka.







The lengths one has to go to in order to get a drink.



Hyena and pups seen on the H1-6 near Mopani Camp.







Another amazing Kruger park sunset.



To be continued.