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Re: New Territory

Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 4:35 pm
by Flutterby
A great sighting and wonderful pics as usual! \O \O

Re: New Territory

Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 4:50 pm
by Pumbaa
Awesome pictures, PJL,

and for sure a more than wonderful sighting too O/\ ^Q^

Re: New Territory

Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 5:17 pm
by Richprins
Very interesting scenery that...is it indigenous scrub, Peej? :-? \O

And the farmhouse in the background? :shock:

Lovely shots and activity! :yes:

Re: New Territory

Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 5:22 pm
by Lisbeth
Looks as if there were a lot of lions around O:V

Re: New Territory

Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 8:16 pm
by PJL
Thanks Flutts, Pumbaa, RP & Lis \O \O
Richprins wrote: Mon May 14, 2018 5:17 pm Very interesting scenery that...is it indigenous scrub, Peej? :-? \O

And the farmhouse in the background? :shock:

Lovely shots and activity! :yes:
The land in that section of the park was cleared for farmland years ago, so it's only starting to grow back a bit. The farm buildings in the background are beyond the park boundary - you can even see traffic on the N2 from where we were parked 0*\

The feast continued except for a pause whilst this youngster was captivated by a plane overhead en-route to JHB lol

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Duffy then popped out to keep the youngsters in check \O

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They had obviously been eating in a variety of places during the day, as one youngster went for a wander and came back with some padkos from down the road ^Q^

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Duffy wasn't content with how the carcass was lying so spent some time wrestling with it until it was more to her satisfaction X#X

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All the excitement was a bit much for one of the lads and he fell asleep in his ribs =O: =O:

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However once Duffy had moved away he decided to try copy the wrestling moves himself, but the adult lion strength isn't quite in the boys yet ;-)

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Josie finally made an appearance but fairly quickly flopped down to sleep with some of the others

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We had been with the lions for about an hour and a half, so decided that it would be a good plan to take in some loops in the south of the park and see whether the lions might move for water later in the evening \O

TBC

Re: New Territory

Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 8:54 pm
by Lisbeth
A wonderful lion sighting with everybody moving around.....mostly ;-) \O

Re: New Territory

Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 6:28 am
by Mel
I love that curious face where the kiddo is looking at the plane ^Q^

Nice lion sighting anyways O:V

Doesn't the latest of Josie's litter have names yet?

Re: New Territory

Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 7:57 am
by Richprins
Beautiful studies again, Peej! X#X

Trains, planes and automobiles! lol

Re: New Territory

Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 8:14 am
by Flutterby
You really got some lovely shots! \O

Re: New Territory

Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 8:32 pm
by Pumbaa
WoW PJL,

what luck you had with this stunning sighting :-0 O/\ - Needless to say that your shots are incredible ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^ :ty: