Africa Wild

We return to the chalet around 17h every Thousand feet looking to go inside ... there is a lot everywhere

Wasp

Shongololo

We eat early, Jacques will come and present his family, his wife and two daughters. They are cute. They only speak Afrikaans, the largest, will play with our little neighbor.
I escort them to the village staff, that I know, I often went to Jannie ... at the entrance, but never at the end of the village, after several fences and by night
I leave them to regret, I light their way in the grass before leaving.
The galley, the return, I must find the way, I get lost, come back, finally I recognize the garage and everything becomes easy

13.11.2014

Starting around 7am for Auob River, and again the chance of "falling" on Falcons, Lanner and Pygmy and Black-shouldered Kite.
Then what I identify as a Gabar Goshawk, another person arrives and is telling us that it's a Little-banded Goshawk or Shikra. But an adult Shikra has red eyes and yellow legs while Gabar Goshawk has a two-tone chest (one with no striped) and red legs.
So I stand by my position
Meanwhile a Bateleur is flying high in the sky and a Tawny Eagle as well.
We stop at the nest ... the little owl is invisible

Lanner

Pygmy Falcon female

Gabar Goshawk/Autour Gabar

with a kill

Steenbok

with 2 ears

one...

and nothing at all

lot of people ask for TR when somebody return home... but not a lot..........

well, soon I will finished this one, so many pages... too much I think to keep people "accro"

no problem I will come to the end... when I start something I'm going till the end
so next one

We observe for a long time Mongooses, a red and a yellow who fight for their territory
The red is much more aggressive and she rejects her rival ... on the other side of the river bed

Yellow Mongoose

Slender Mongoose

both

A little further, in a large "gouille" Two Red-billed Ducks, rather unexpected observation
Then Giraffes, two young males who are testing each other.

Red-billet Teal/Canard à bec rouge

He yes, there is Ducks in the Kgalagadi

Girafe groupe

two heads

body to body



road block

And again a Gabar Goshawk, but this time the rarely seen melanistic. Too bad, it remains under the branches and the light is really insufficient

Melanistic Gabar Goshawk

A PCG ashore collecting building material ... still the effects of spring
At the end of a loop, an Oryx is drinking in a puddle of recent rains, while the Springboks are still warming up in the sun.



Cape Glossy Starling/Choucador à épaulettes rouges

Oryx

Springboks... male