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Re: KTP 2014 - my favourites

Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 7:01 pm
by Tina
a squirrel who could not decide whether it was hungry or sleepy

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Re: KTP 2014 - my favourites

Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 8:31 pm
by Tina
06.10.2014 continued

next we spotted a couple of swallow-tailed bee-eaters and stayed with them for about 45 vminutes

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finally they even showed us their nesting site

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Re: KTP 2014 - my favourites

Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 8:32 pm
by Tina
at Kamfersboom a gemsbok was enquiring what t he bird is looking at

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there was another sleepy lion at Monro

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Re: KTP 2014 - my favourites

Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 8:34 pm
by Tina
in the dunes we saw ant-eating chat

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chat flycatcher

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and a spike-heeled lark with breakfast

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Re: KTP 2014 - my favourites

Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 8:34 pm
by Tina
when we returned, the lion was still sleeping lol

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Re: KTP 2014 - my favourites

Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 8:35 pm
by Tina
then at Kamfersboom we saw cheetahs again – it was the Top Cat Gang

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Re: KTP 2014 - my favourites

Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 8:36 pm
by Tina
we stopped at Auchterlonie and could see that it was raining in the distance

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Re: KTP 2014 - my favourites

Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 8:38 pm
by Tina
next there was an ostrich taking a dust bath

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and another first were a cardinal woodpecker close to Montrose and a bokmakierie

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and we had two lifers today as well with brubru and black-faced waxbill.

Re: KTP 2014 - my favourites

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 3:59 pm
by Tina
07.10.2014

this was the start of our last full day in the park

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Re: KTP 2014 - my favourites

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 4:01 pm
by Tina
the morning drive took us North and turned out to be a birding drive. Our first sighting was a tawny

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then there was a toko – collecting material for a nest?

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