Memories of Marloth and Tamboti Trip Jan 2018

[Lisbeth]

Great to see vultures! I was quite worried because I only saw a couple when I stayed at Phala, but I did not see any carcasses either

Looks like a big leopard, but difficult to be sure.

I cannot see any Jackals in the pic

The giraffe has quite an abscess or whatever it is

Lovely white stork

Ant army on the move

To tail or not to tail

[Richprins]

The giraffe is "chewing the cud", Lis!

[Lisbeth]

Better

[RogerFraser]

Rather you than me in that traffic jam

Interesting tail you have told

Wow, that is a big prey item for a leopard, Rog!

Great all-round scenes, and the mystery of the tail continues...

And the smaller things!

Yes must have been quite a battle to bring it down .

Great to see vultures! I was quite worried because I only saw a couple when I stayed at Phala, but I did not see any carcasses either

Looks like a big leopard, but difficult to be sure.

I cannot see any Jackals in the pic

The giraffe has quite an abscess or whatever it is

Lovely white stork

Ant army on the move

To tail or not to tail

The Jackals are in the middle of the pic far back .

[RogerFraser]

On the way back to camp these beauties were foraging for bugs





A herd of bufs was down in the riverbed





The birds were enjoyinh the berries


Back in camp we enjoyed the bushbuck


and a kingfisher


That evening while baaing we watched some owls on the opposite bank of the river -pic is not too clear

[Richprins]

Rog!


Interesting all those starlings in the tree!

Your bushbuck may be a nyala...

[Lisbeth]

So many wattled starlings in one tree The berries must have been very good

Buffalos in the green

Great pics of the bushbuck and the Kingfisher. I don't think that I have ever seen a Bushbuck male

[Peter Betts]

The Bushbuck is a Nyala...Wattled Starlings are highly nomadic and gather before moving onto the next destination ..Lovely pics especially the Kingfisher

[Richprins]

Is that a striped Kingfisher?

[Lisbeth]

I considered it this morning, but forgot to control

The bill should be black above, but I cannot exclude it as it looks as if it has a white collar and no buff on the underparts. The head should be darker though

Roger, do you have other pics of the Kingfisher?