Pink in Pilanesberg

[JustN@ture]

A few more of the game and birds, till when we stopped for breakfast.







Orb spider with kill


European Bee-eater and one with kill :D :D








Scenery *sigh*


Breakfast being prepared

[Penga Ndlovu]

Flutts, looks like Amoli's monitor had a sudden voltage overload and exploded. I hope the lizard got away safely before that nasty explosion...

Nah. She came driving down the road with 90 kmh an hour, scared the wits out of the poor monitor, the monitor jumped high in the air with fright, hit the windscreen and what you see in the pic is all that is left of it.

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[BunnyHugger]

That might 'splain why she got to the picnic spot before we did and we had a shorter route to drive...

[BunnyHugger]

PN, it is compulsary to put the names next to the bird pics.... //\0--

Err, one of the problems we encountered was that it was only discovered an hour into the journey that someone left my bird book at home. To avoid embarrassing members of this forum, names will not be mentioned.

Many discussions were held at the numerous stops to photograph these birds as to what it may or may not be. General consensus of opinion was that many, while differing in such charactaristics as beak size and shape, overall body size, and several other factors, that most of what we saw was chategorised as "LBJ" or "BBJ" (little brown job, or big brown job.)

Please feel free to apply this naming convention to any of the birds seen during this trip...... It worked for us then, no reason at all it might not work now. (Oh and for any of the critics out there, please feel free to correct and errata that may occur.

[BunnysHunny]

thank you pink team...

it surely looks like i dont have to say a ting

gooi..........

[JustN@ture]

PN, little did Amoli know we have a pic of her monitor lizard after it hit the windscreen....

[BunnyHugger]

I think it was about this time we saw some wild aminals. There were some Zeebies at the "T" junction heading out of Fish Eagle, we saw one or two Wildebeest and pretty much of not much for the next hour or so. At Mankwe hide, we had some special sightings before even getting to the hide. En route we saw a Pygmy king fisher, a pied kingfisher, (luckily we'd already had brekkie so no-one wanted a Kingfisher pie) and some red Bishops displaying. (That was something special to see.)

The Pygmy KF had a pie in his beak (or was it a small silver fish?) Once in the hide, it was noisy. Big kids who were the parent of little kids. Noise, more noise and little or no control. Kids running and kids jumping. Eish. It was nice to see their enthusiasm though.)

Yellow Billed Stork (err, please feel free to correct me team.) grey herons. african jacana, darters, cormorants and some terrapins made up the thing we could see. Some Jabis (Impala) walking along the opposite bank while griebs did their thing in the water. It occured to me that people arefeeding the aminals at the hides. For example, when we sat down and looked into the water, the terrapins were swimming around looking up at us and I guess, expecting food.

Once the crowds left though, tranquility returned.

After a while we decided that camp and the pool was probably a good call and headed north again. We saw Springbuck, Zeebies, Blue wildebeest, and even saw an Steppe Buzzard.

During our drive, we saw a number of Rhino as well. For the sake of this TR, and the perceived well-being of our Rhino population, I don't think I will mention where and when we saw these beasts.

Arrival back in camp was welcome and we were soon in the pool enjoying the sights. If it wasn't so hot, maybe a snooze would have been even better.

[BunnyHugger]

Next time, maybe better not take anything stronger than beer.....you will feel much better un the sunday -O

Eh?? How do you know about Sunday?? We haven't even got past Saturday yet and you're going on Sunday??

Slow down to a gentle panic there Lismod. You're getting way ahead of the game here. Speeding's not allowed. (now where is that RTFM smiley when you need it?)

[Penga Ndlovu]

The Pygmee Kingfisher turned out to be just another "ordinary" Malachite Kingfisher but the pie was a silver colored fish it had in it's beak.

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[JustN@ture]

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Better rename my pics quick