Re: Stories from Tar Roads and From Spots
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2022 10:34 pm
Next we stopped for another woodland kingfisher
sitting on a branch in the light rain although same obviously got bored whilst posing for us and
same detected from somewhere a small stick and started to play with same.
Lots of giraffes could be seen
as well as white fronted bee eaters
and unfortunately this was it already of what we saw as the causeways either close to Red Rocks or the one leading to the upper part of the S52 were not crossable and so a short break at Tshanga look out came quite handy and so we simply had to drive back via the same road we came from. The rain still got a bit heavier and at least a larger group of wildebeests
just appeared from the bushes and now walked through all the larger puddles which meanwhile could be seen nearly everywhere.
At least they dared to come closer and after the disappointingly quiet morning we now got something to photograph
obviously they were extreme curious as we must have been the first car they saw that morning.
We also detected a group of hadeahs in a tree
trying to dry their feathers.
until we already reached again Shingwedzi camp and as it was still far too early to return to camp and the S50 was the only other gravel road which was open we drove a bit along that one and here we found another brown eagle in a tree
and a couple of white storks on the ground nearly hidden by the high grass. Due to the rain and wetness of the grass the vegetation looked far greener as it already looked that year.
A nicely posing crested barbet
sitting on a branch in the light rain although same obviously got bored whilst posing for us and
same detected from somewhere a small stick and started to play with same.
Lots of giraffes could be seen
as well as white fronted bee eaters
and unfortunately this was it already of what we saw as the causeways either close to Red Rocks or the one leading to the upper part of the S52 were not crossable and so a short break at Tshanga look out came quite handy and so we simply had to drive back via the same road we came from. The rain still got a bit heavier and at least a larger group of wildebeests
just appeared from the bushes and now walked through all the larger puddles which meanwhile could be seen nearly everywhere.
At least they dared to come closer and after the disappointingly quiet morning we now got something to photograph
obviously they were extreme curious as we must have been the first car they saw that morning.
We also detected a group of hadeahs in a tree
trying to dry their feathers.
until we already reached again Shingwedzi camp and as it was still far too early to return to camp and the S50 was the only other gravel road which was open we drove a bit along that one and here we found another brown eagle in a tree
and a couple of white storks on the ground nearly hidden by the high grass. Due to the rain and wetness of the grass the vegetation looked far greener as it already looked that year.
A nicely posing crested barbet