Stories from Tar Roads and From Spots

[Klipspringer]

A very exciting "night heron"

Love the giraffes in the landscape

[RogerFraser]

Wow you got some really nice Bird profiles of the snake eagle, bateleur and white headed vulture

Also enjoy the scenery with the Giraffe .

A leopard is a leopard and that one looks like he doesn't have time to waste on posing for these silly people, just glad he listened to your request for a face shot

[Pumbaa]

Beautiful light on the giraffes

Nice to see Lots of different vultures

The hyenas look really angry

And as you say a leopard is a leopard even if not very visible and not very good looking

Strange place for a heron

Totally right about the heron - It was a fantastic evening light at Nsemani - Sigh

[Pumbaa]

A whole bunch of birdies again, Pumbaa!

I love the giraffe shots too.

What an old leopard!

Those cactuses (prickly pears) are invaders and should be removed ASAP!

When do you decide on your routes, the night before?

Although must say the prickly pears do look lovely in that vegetation - Normaly we always do have our must drive roads which we do at least once or even more often. At least the roads we want to drive on our morning drive we decide roughly the evening before - Sometimes friendly passengers are telling something about nice sightings then we decide whether to pay a visit there or to stick to our plans or when standing at a crossroad we sometimes turn into another road. The afternoon drives depend on what we saw and whether to pay another visit there or to decide on other roads or when we are too tired we simply stay in camp

[Pumbaa]

A very exciting "night heron"

Love the giraffes in the landscape

It was funny to see that many giraffes at Nsemani - It was nice

[Pumbaa]

Wow you got some really nice Bird profiles of the snake eagle, bateleur and white headed vulture

Also enjoy the scenery with the Giraffe .

A leopard is a leopard and that one looks like he doesn't have time to waste on posing for these silly people, just glad he listened to your request for a face shot

Totally right about that leopard We had indeed luck with all these raptors that close

[Pumbaa]

Slightly the mist started to clear up a bit and so we stopped for the general game along that road



with lots of zebras



and wildebeests around.



Another car stood then right in the middle of the road and so we also soon discovered an impressive martial eagle on a branch extreme close



with a kill in its claw on which same was feeding actively.



We spotted a grey heron on the look out after the martial eagle had finished its breakfast



and then it was lifer time as we stopped for a bronze winged courser



a bird still on our wish list and we were finally happy that we could tick same off today.



We unfortunately chased up a buffalo bull who was enjoying his private spa but luckily after we carried on he simply laid down again



but therefore we had to be patient as an elephant bull popped out of the dense vegetation.




Lots of Swallows already joined us the whole way and finally we could capture them whilst resting on a bush

[Pumbaa]

and the closer we came finally Leeubron the more general game could be seen such as zebras



and lots of giraffes



who obviously found it funny to block the road and stare at us.



At least meanwhile the mist cleared away and the sun came out and after lot of pleasantly bearable days it started to heat us already.



That elephant bull luckily could already keep a cool head



and we had to photograph one of those breath taking views along that beautiful road.



Close to Timbavati picnic spot one had to cross the sand spruit and today lots of woodland kingfishers were hanging around there



and started to put a display show together.



Needless to say that with their famous noise



which seems to come from nearly every corner now



we were extreme entertained by their



posing, displaying and singing.



to be continued……………………..

[Lisbeth]

Beautiful Woodies

The giraffe is really a funny creature

An impressive martial eagle

[RogerFraser]

Love the roadblock

Wonderful Woody sequence

Always special to see a martial eagle