Africa Wild

ossendryver wrote: ↑Sun May 27, 2012 2:12 pm

We couldn't find our lions so we went along the river on the H1-6 to Matambeni Hide because the ranger told us that there is a resident leopard there so we thought to ourselves that it's worth a try.

Along the river and saw these amazing sequences of photos:






We arrived at Matambeni Hide and the closest thing to a leopard was a couple showing us the one that they saw cross the road and 5 minute ago.

But we did see animals at the hide.

Pumbaa wrote: ↑Thu Nov 27, 2014 10:15 pm

After an extensive break with also a great number of hippos and crocodiles to watch we carried on into the S62 to Matambeni hide. Whoever travelled along this road might have felt a bit lost as you are riding on a road surrounded my monotonous mopane bushes and it felt as if the road to the hide will never end and we already thought that we might have been lost but somehow we suddenly stood right in front of the hide. Besides a lone buffalo in his private spa the bushes were even too thick to identify anything else and the birdies might have gone somewhere else as well on that hot day.

The hide itself was stunning and the view you had was fantastic and as we were for the whole time the only people there we had enough space to walk a bit around and observe our beloved feathered friends excessively. A cinnamon breasted bunting sat on a branch in a thick bush and it was a bit tricky to get a decent shot but finally this bird could now be captured as well by Timon.

Pumbaa wrote: ↑Sun Nov 30, 2014 4:07 pm Also another brown hooded kingfisher could easily be seen



and also a pied wagtail who favoured to rest on the specific rock formation on the left hand side of the hide.



A couple of white fronted bee eaters were busy in searching for food and obviously had other mouths to feed as some of them always flew into a nest



and lateron also took a rest of the famous rocks.



I guess we spent about two hours in the hide with enjoying the views and watching the birdies come and go and on the other hand it was also a far too hot day to be spent the entire day in the car on the road then in a lovely aerial hide as there was still a nice and steady breeze blowing.

Pumbaa wrote: ↑Fri Jan 13, 2017 5:18 pm

and we came across a very shy and hiding red crested korhaan until we finally reached the hide.



Somehow no wind was blowing that day and the short walk to the hide heated us even more up. Gladly the hide was shady and it was bearable there and we made ourselves comfortable there although it was quiet birdwise but we spotted some tortoises which swam by and started to sunbath on the rocks,



a pied wagtail had something to say,



the white fronted bee eaters could again be admired in a close by tree,



in the distance a goliath heron was trying to catch something to eat



and a numerous Egyptian goose convention was up and running.



We also spotted in the distance great white egrets and from time to time huge crocodiles paid a closer visit to the hide.