Dog Day Afternoons.

[Alf]

What a hectic feast

No space for a mouse

[Pumbaa]

Brilliant vulture shots, Dewi

[nan]

What a hectic feast

No space for a mouse

in the stomac

[RogerFraser]

Wow Dewi

just caught up from loooong way back in the TR, soo many good interesting sightings .

Love the dog chase through camp ,pups and the Bull ellie pics are

The vultures coming in to land are always fun to watch .

The bridges and car problems sounds like a memorable holiday

Had a good friend who moved to the Midlands to work on the Wattled crane breeding project there .they used to have to get dressed into a bird suit so the youngsters would not imprint to humans was very interesting to hear what great work they were doing .Unfortunately we lost contact not long afterwards so not sure if the project was successful or not .

[ExFmem]

I like your description of "zooming" with a fixed lens. The visual is hilarious.

Your bird pics have always been spectacular, and continue to be eye-popping - LOVE the cranes, fish eagle, and vultures.

Sounds like the next portion of the trip gets interesting.....

[Dewi]

Thanks for your comments Flutt's, Nan, Alf, Pumbaa, Roger & ExFmem.

More vultures to come.....

[Dewi]

The staff returned to let us know that they had found the two male lions that had killed the buffalo, so we followed them to a spot where they pointed them out to us. At first, we could not see anything. But once we refocussed our eyes, we saw them hidden away in thick bush. They were obviously not going to make a move anytime soon after filling their bellies overnight, so we returned to the carcass to watch the vultures.

Sleepy lions.



The vultures were still busy feeding, but there appeared to have been a change in the birds present.



This meant new squabbles and bickering as birds sorted out their place in vulture hierarchy.



This one was pleased to be on top for a while.







But the real fighting seemed to be at ground level.



This one piled in on top of the fracas and wormed its way down through the throng to get at the best bits.

[Lisbeth]

No doubt that the top one is a white-backed vulture

[PJL]

Some more great shots of all the vultures

[Alf]

They leave nothing behind

Total chaos