The red-billed queleas had been unleashed

[Mel]

Oh, wow, Pumbaa - you got a real special there with the SSJs And even a whole family of them

(That creepy crawly would have sent me running around screaming like a girl )

[All-Nature]

Beautiful bird photos
and the Butterflies are gorgeous
Wow nice Lionesses
A whole family of SSJ's stunning
Eeek those night creepy crawling critters you can keep
for sharing

[Lisbeth]

Beautiful photo of the dam

You had a great encounter with the jackals

The lions are very well hidden

Pretty butterflies

[Bushcraft]

Gesanftombi nice and full

Love it when zebra do the “head to tail “ fly swatting thing

Units 9 and 10 are considered the best by most in Croc Bridge

What’s that bird with the funny appendage hanging under its beak

Roman spiders According to PN, one must stand still as they aren’t chasing your shadow, but rather the vibrations given off when you walk

Wonderful SSJ sighting

[Lisbeth]

I forgot to mention the wattled starling having the eyes covered by the wattles both hanging down on the same side

[Flutterby]

Great side-stripe sighting , and and nice lion sighting too!!

Lovely light in your pics.

[Richprins]

Very rare the 3 jackals together, Pumbaa!

Good to see those crickets departing before they get any bigger...don't like them!

Don't like those Romans either, these Romans are crazy!

[Pumbaa]

Thanks so much nan, Mel, All-Nature, Lisbeth, Bushcraft, Flutterby and Richprins for your amazing comments and compliments

We were so thankful that the side striped jackal family walked on the road instead of in the high grass as otherwise we never would have noticed them

[Pumbaa]

As it looks it will still take a bit longer before they might move again we carried on to decide to stop there again when driving back from the dam. Meanwhile the one zebra amongst the many wildebeests could still be seen crisscrossing the road so we stopped there too as they were really close



and took some pictures. This one obviously saw too many resting elephants and soon imitated one



and also the lone zebra amongst them was willing to pose.





We spent quite a while there when a car with a younger couple approached us from behind which we now stopped and asked them if they had seen the lions which they denied and so we now moved backwards and pointed the lions out to them and not a second too late as the lions were about to move





and followed the leader.



In slow motion one after the other crossed the street



in still good light not without eying us suspiciously



and to search later on for the mate in the high grass.

[Pumbaa]

We for sure stayed until also the last one crossed the street and it definitely did not take long until the high grass absorbed them.



What a wonderful morning so far again and that lion sighting compensated us a bit for the lack of animals on the S28 that morning but whilst driving now finally into the directing of the earlier existing dam we had to stop again as a kori bustard came across and for sure we had to stop for that bird to take some shots



whilst the passengers in the car who made us first aware of the lions came back from the dam and they wanted to know whether the lions are still there and unfortunately I had to tell them that they meanwhile were gone.

We pointed instead the kori out to them who was also enthusiastically been photographed by them.



Gladly there the grass was not that high and consequently same allowed a couple of wonderful shots. Meanwhile also more zebras joined the lone one and the wildebeests and we also finally made it to the dam where we stopped a while and enjoyed the silence there.



In that area it must have rained only recently heavily as still large puddles were existing and it was still very muddy. Gladly a grader stood already on hand to grade the street and also at the previous dam a couple of construction vehicles could be seen. On this 2 km stretch to the dam the animal activity was extreme good and it is always worth to drive this little detour.

Meanwhile we reached the turn off into the S137 which we took and there lots of white backed vultures, yellow weavers,



European rollers



as well as kudus crossed out path.





Lots of wattled starling also flew from bush to bush even as much as the red billed queleas



another wonderful bird sighting on that road was a red crested korhaan who stood on a sandlhill –



gladly for us as otherwise same could not have been seen -



to be continued...