The red-billed queleas had been unleashed
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Re: The red-billed queleas had been unleashed
The osprey was a nice goodbye greeting
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Re: The red-billed queleas had been unleashed
Lovely again, Pumbaa!
Quite rare to be up early enough to catch the hippo coming back from the "office."
What a nice nyala study, especially the pink horn-bases!
And osprey!
I like the dove shot!
Quite rare to be up early enough to catch the hippo coming back from the "office."
What a nice nyala study, especially the pink horn-bases!
And osprey!
I like the dove shot!
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Re: The red-billed queleas had been unleashed
We were so happy to finally could capture the osprey
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And another one is coming up soon
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But I guess the hippos were late instead of us too early but we also never saw that
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And the sun was shining on our last two days
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Far too soon we already stood then on the Babalala picnic spot for a body break and there the always friendly attendant made us aware of a barn owl in a palm tree
and that was already the second lifer that day! After taking a lot of pictures we thanked the attendant enthusiastically and said good bye. Due to the lack of sightings along the tar road we reached Shisha already quite early but there we stopped and got entertained by an elephant herd who just arrived there to quench their thirst.
One of the mom’s showed us how to use her trunk
and spread around with water under the watchful eye of a more than cute calf
who look more than fascinated and impressed how she used her trunk.
After a while the herd started to move off but lots of the females cared very much for the youngsters
and such behaviour is always more than stunning to observe.
We then decided spontaneously to drive up to Pafuri that day as we could not drag away ourselves and as it was still far too early to leave already – Okay here you will always find reasons why not to leave the park.....
and that was already the second lifer that day! After taking a lot of pictures we thanked the attendant enthusiastically and said good bye. Due to the lack of sightings along the tar road we reached Shisha already quite early but there we stopped and got entertained by an elephant herd who just arrived there to quench their thirst.
One of the mom’s showed us how to use her trunk
and spread around with water under the watchful eye of a more than cute calf
who look more than fascinated and impressed how she used her trunk.
After a while the herd started to move off but lots of the females cared very much for the youngsters
and such behaviour is always more than stunning to observe.
We then decided spontaneously to drive up to Pafuri that day as we could not drag away ourselves and as it was still far too early to leave already – Okay here you will always find reasons why not to leave the park.....
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On our far way to the far North we then stopped for another elephant bull with a set of impressive tusks
and then it got quiet when it comes to sightings as in no time we already reached the highwater bridge across the Luvuvhu and the area before the bridge simply looked lovely
as everything looked green and lots of ponds filled with water could be seen in the veld and on top the Luvuvhu was also flowing strongly
and same carried a lot of red sand
and although it looked like the end of the world and it is maybe the nearly end of Kruger but for me it is simply a beautiful area and bridge.
While we watched around on the bridge we noticed quite a large number of white fronted bee eaters who just arrived
and started to entertain us quite a lot – Funny was when nearly all of them used a small flexible branch as swing
and the wind did the rest and sway them
for sure they also started to catch bees and presented same to us
and another nice sighting was a village indigo bird who joined the bee eaters.
to be continued....
and then it got quiet when it comes to sightings as in no time we already reached the highwater bridge across the Luvuvhu and the area before the bridge simply looked lovely
as everything looked green and lots of ponds filled with water could be seen in the veld and on top the Luvuvhu was also flowing strongly
and same carried a lot of red sand
and although it looked like the end of the world and it is maybe the nearly end of Kruger but for me it is simply a beautiful area and bridge.
While we watched around on the bridge we noticed quite a large number of white fronted bee eaters who just arrived
and started to entertain us quite a lot – Funny was when nearly all of them used a small flexible branch as swing
and the wind did the rest and sway them
for sure they also started to catch bees and presented same to us
and another nice sighting was a village indigo bird who joined the bee eaters.
to be continued....
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Re: The red-billed queleas had been unleashed
More lovely pics of ellies with calves
The barn owl is not easy to find and they are rather small too
Beautiful scenery
The barn owl is not easy to find and they are rather small too
Beautiful scenery
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Nelson Mandela
The desire for equality must never exceed the demands of knowledge
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