Flavour of the Month: October / November 2017 - S50 Kanniedood Dam Road - Shingwedzi-Mopani Dirt Road

[Dewi]

9th August 2014 RP.

The dam (well, bits of it).

[Flutterby]

That's a nice bit.

[Richprins]

Fascinating! Hey, Alf must nominate someone to do Dec/January!

[Richprins]

From a 2012 Blutuna story:

https://www.africawild-forum.com/viewto ... 5&start=80


After setting up camp, we took a drive down the river road. The Kanniedood Dam is empty!



But further downstream there are quite a few pools of water.



This fish looks a bit too big to swallow, but it went down in one




A little further along we came upon the oldest Buffalo I've ever seen




Last but not least on the other side of the river bed, a group of Dugga Boys who were in the company of an Eland which ran off before I could get my camera on him.





Back on the road for our usual Shingwedzi afternoon drive down the river loops. The first thing we saw was a Side Striped Jackal in the river bed



Then we had some White-Fronted Bee-Eaters




and much further down, a lone Lioness on the far side of the river




As the light was fading, I saw a stange creature clambering about in a tree. It looks like a Vervet Monkey but obviously had some colour mutation. I don't think it's an albino because it doesn't have pink eyes.

[Richprins]

Found some 2008 sightings:

A male/female nyala....one sometimes gets them:

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And a surfing heron!


http://v4.tinypic.com/player.swf?file=wldg2f&s=4

[Richprins]

Also the biggest kudu horns I have ever seen!!!

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[Richprins]

A VERY hot day at the causeway, 2008:

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[Lisbeth]

The surfing heron, does not show

[Richprins]

Shows for me!

[nan]

I don't think it's an albino because it doesn't have pink eyes.

for me too there is one picture missing