Africa Wild

A variety of animals on day 1

I love the photos where you see the animals and yet you don't....mystery pics

The raffies are lovely

great day, Pumbaa!

My favourite is the lioness at the natural water!

Also love the mountain giraffe!

Great sightings and scenery around Matjulu.

Strong and beautiful lionesses I also like the giraffe photos. Nice compositions
Cute goslings too

Flutterby wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 1:43 pm Lovely pics of the lions, especially that last one.

Also one of my favourite

Alf wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 2:00 pm A variety of animals on day 1

and the day is not yet over

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 2:31 pm I love the photos where you see the animals and yet you don't....mystery pics

The raffies are lovely

Totally right and that happened often in summer when the grass is that high

Richprins wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 5:29 pm great day, Pumbaa!

My favourite is the lioness at the natural water!

Also love the mountain giraffe!

They had chosen such a wonderful resting place

Klipspringer wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 10:23 am Great sightings and scenery around Matjulu.

And besides the scenery there are normally a lot of different animals around as well

Mel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:03 am Strong and beautiful lionesses I also like the giraffe photos. Nice compositions
Cute goslings too

The giraffes posed simply so nicely so Timon took shot after shot

Next stop was then Afsaal and after the two nights with only a little bit sleep we both needed a strong coffee and for sure a short break. Luckily after the coffee we felt far better and less tired and so we were ready for new adventures and stopped for a group of zebras



with little ones nearly everywhere.



The landscape is lovely with all the koppies but this is also the classical spot the animal shot as there are indeed some to be seen there -



after a closer look we or better to say Timon spotted a family of klipspringers and as we only spotted one single klipspringer last year we were extreme happy to now even discovered three of them already on our first full day.



We always do drive the Biyamiti loop on our first full day and so it was today but meanwhile it got a bit hotter although I must say it was bearable during the day as a strong wind was blowing but the sightings got a bit less but we were entertained by two squirrels out of which the upper one was lying on a smaller branch



and the other one sat on the same branch chewing on something



and now we captured them together



and also from the same spot we photographed a yellow billed hornbill. More hornbills were around as well as a lot of glossy starlings obviously this was a meeting point of them.



Surprisingly we already discovered blue waxbills out of which one willingly posed nicely for us,



we also stopped for elephants,

a Wahlberg eagle



who obviously was also in the need of a coffee



and a woodland kingfisher.



We stopped for a smaller lizard,



discovered already a family of ground hornbills



in a tree



and finally reached Biyamiti weir were indeed only a small runlet was overflowing consequently not that much water birds were around but we noted the ever present African jacanas



and one of our favourites and the so called by us “red ones” – the red bishops.





to be continued…….

Lovely pic of the klipspringers!!