Africa Wild

Catching up, Pumbaa!

Lots of sightings and adventure!

Glad you got helped in Malelane.

Grand barbet shots, plus a lovely leppie indeed!

And even more rhino!

Luckily you got the battery

Malachite kingfishers are always a joy for the eyes.....and the camera

More rhinos

glad you got sorted with the battery in Malelane .

Lovely dehorned ones .Looks very hot with them all in the shade very strange to see the Hyenas out in the hot weather .

the Malecite they so colourful .

Richprins wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 5:52 pm Catching up, Pumbaa!

Lots of sightings and adventure!

Glad you got helped in Malelane.

Grand barbet shots, plus a lovely leppie indeed!

And even more rhino!

Yes it looked as if the employees were extreme happy that people got lost to their shop but for sure we were extreme happy to get that solved finally

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 6:49 pm Luckily you got the battery

Malachite kingfishers are always a joy for the eyes.....and the camera

More rhinos

Those colours of this bird are simply incredible - Always happy when finding a malachite

RogerFraser wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 7:06 pm glad you got sorted with the battery in Malelane .

Lovely dehorned ones .Looks very hot with them all in the shade very strange to see the Hyenas out in the hot weather .

the Malecite they so colourful .

Yes it was already extreme hot and even more in the sun - No idea about the hyenas obviously they were on a mission

We turned into the private road leading to Biyamiti and as always enjoyed each meter on that road and took it even slower than we normally drive and indeed a bit more general game could be spotted as well although this narrow road is always overgrown at that time of the year and consequently not easy to spot anything. Today we noticed a group of kudus



and more kudus between a couple of boulders



and at one of the more open areas we came across another group of warthogs



who must have still found a mud puddle along that road



as even the tusks needed a bit mud.



Because giraffes are that tall they could be spotted easily along that road



and we for sure fired again away



the elephant herd we then discovered was indeed not easy to locate but that cute little youngster peeped out of a bush.



It was indeed a more than nice drive on that private road as due to the thickness it was a bit shady and also a couple of smaller ponds filled with waterlilies could be admired as well



as well as another nicely posing snake eagle

at the view point we left the car and walked a bit around whilst looking here and there and in the distance in the river bed in a couple of really small puddles we discovered a saddle billed stork.



Back in camp I filled again the bird bath as most of the water must have either been vaporized or even drank and we sat again on our verandah with a cold one and waited for anything to come and also today we had not been disappointed as many grey louries were around and also very noisy,



butterflies flew around and red collared barbets as well as a glossy starling raided the bird bath





and even more red collared barbets came to visit same.





The grey lourie obviously did not want to get wet and same preferred to take a bath in the sand close to the bird bath.





to be continued………….

Lovely birds

Nice, Pumbaa!

I like the barbets and dustbather!

Must be lovely having a cold one on the stoep and waiting for the birdies to come by!