A cat or a lifer a day keep the doctor away

[Richprins]

Lovely shots and great variety again, Pumbaa!

Never seen that robin-thing...

Lake Panic scenery is indeed always awesome!

My favourite is the wader with wings up...hande hoch!

That lion womans is exhausted!

[Flutterby]

Great pics of the kingfishers!!

Lovely lion couple.

[Mel]

Beautiful photos throughout! But my favourites are those of the tranquil scenery at Lake Panic

[Pumbaa]

Beautiful sunny photos of birds and beasts You were lucky with the honeymoon lions

Your "lifer" is not a white-throated robin thrush It must be a shrike with that bill A southern boubou maybe?

Southern boubou would be a lifer too

[Pumbaa]

Lovely shots and great variety again, Pumbaa!

Never seen that robin-thing...

Lake Panic scenery is indeed always awesome!

My favourite is the wader with wings up...hande hoch!

That lion womans is exhausted!

Looks indeed like Hande hoch

[Pumbaa]

Great pics of the kingfishers!!

Lovely lion couple.

For sure more lion shots to follow

[Pumbaa]

Beautiful photos throughout! But my favourites are those of the tranquil scenery at Lake Panic

Indeed how I miss this place - Sigh

[Pumbaa]

Was the honeymoon couple still relaxed when we arrived it meanwhile was obviously time again and both looked at each other and meant the same – “Ready?”



“Ready!”



After the obligatory prologue



they got straight down to the nitty-gritty



and were caught in the act.





It was such a fantastic end of the day with this brilliant sighting and obviously we still arrived right in time



in order to enjoy the lions but for sure we still had to keep an eye onto the clock not to be too late.

[Pumbaa]

The light was not in our favour as we had to photograph against the light but who cares



whilst we enjoyed the day dreamer





who got tired after his tasks.



He started to groom



and was a very handsome guy



and I hoped that it maybe could be one of the four males we saw at exactly that spot last year.



His chosen one was exhausted





and his majesty was prepared to pose for some nice portraits.





until it was meanwhile time to leave



and so in a very good mood we left and for sure we already knew at that stage where to look for lions tomorrow.

Back in camp we lit the braai, however, the darker it got the more bugs appeared from nowhere who all were attracted by the lights and I guess after the previous rainy evenings now they had their time. We tried to put the table somewhere else and it got a bit better but if we not nearly had finished our braai we would have went inside but so whilst the bugs stayed outside we went to bed and slept like logs and even without any bug inside.

to be continued……

[Flutterby]

Lovely pics.