In Search of Some Good "Spots"

[nan]

love the Parrots and Python

[Pumbaa]

Great that you were able to find the pel's fishing owl, Ratel

that walk sounds extreme intersting as we will be stayin in Olifants next year as well I guess this might be an option

Great hyena, python and river shots as well

[Ratel]

Thanks everyone for your nice comments.

Lisbeth, the python was well and truly still growing! It would have been 2.5m give-or-take.

Thursday 24th August

Olifants to Satara for lunch - H8 - H1-4 continued

The run down the H1-4 to Satara went fairly quickly, so I will spare you lots of words and just let the pics tell the story.

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An artistic edit which I really like.

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"Follow me Mum, I know the way!"

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Just a few kilometres before Satara we found a car stopped photographing a Common Buttonquail on the road.

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It is always exciting to see shy birds like this out in the open so we started taking pics, only to notice some concerning behaviour. The bird began to slowly turn around in a full circle, then continued to do so as we watched. This typically indicates a bird with a concussion or other neurological issue, and in such cases they continue to rotate in the same direction. We suspect it had flushed from the roadside as a car passed and had flown into the car, causing a head trauma. Normally we would just jump out of the car and pick it up to take it into care, but we were in Kruger so weren't allowed out of the car! It was frustrating to be so close to it but be unable to even move it off the road and away from immediate danger, so as we departed the site for Satara Rest Camp we worried that it would soon become roadkill.

[Lisbeth]

Nice photos of general game. Kruger would not be the same without it

It is terrible to see an animal suffering and not being able to do anything. They are totally helpless

[nan]

I often ask myself what to do in this case
drive over it to stop suffering

love the little one, who already know all
like Zebras in a row at the bar
your black and white pic is not so bad

[Flutterby]

Love the ellie pic!

And great sighting of the buttonquail...such a shame it was injured! Perhaps it was just a mild concussion which wore off after a while!

[Richprins]

Great that the Aussies appreciate a big snake...lots of them there!

Ja, nana and Flutts...one could be tempted to put something out of its suffering, but maybe this one recovered, however doubtful...

[Mel]

In the Kgalagadi people get out of the car to rescue small tortoises from being run over all of the time.
I'm not saying you should have gotten out to rescue the buttonquail, just mentioning that some people are a law
to themselves and don't care about rules like you do. After all, they feel they did it for the greater good

[nan]

In the Kgalagadi people get out of the car to rescue small tortoises from being run over all of the time.

no, not me, I stay in the middle of the road till it is in security
same for snakes and.... what else

[Mel]

I never got out either but watched it in real time and saw a post on Facebook just the other day
from the people doing it, probably expecting applause for there Samaritan deed

(But let's not digress on this travel tale )