Africa Wild

Never seen a falcon in the park - nice sighting!! Great klippie pic!

What creative pics, Pumbaa!

Very interesting that kudu eating a forb on the ground!

Wonder why?

Love also the Klippie!

Lisbeth wrote:The crested barbet looks totally ridiculous

Seeing the klipspringer under the koppie looks scary

We also laughed a lot when noticing that we captured the crested barbet that way

Flutterby wrote:Never seen a falcon in the park - nice sighting!! Great klippie pic!

I got a fright when seeing that klippie under that huge rock

Richprins wrote:What creative pics, Pumbaa!

Very interesting that kudu eating a forb on the ground!

Wonder why?

Love also the Klippie!

No idea but maybe a favourite of this Kudu female

Not far down the road we met another klippspringer sighting of a couple where she was hiding behind the rock and only sometimes showed her head.



On one of the many bridges we had to cross a saddle billed stork was about to approach



only to start foraging.



We finally turned into the S113 and nearly at the end before you had a cross a causeway turning into the Biyamiti loop we noticed more white faced vultures in a tree



and a small traffic jam, however, due to the traffic and high grass we first could not identify anything but after some cars moved it was our turn and we were facing lion sighting number 2 already!



Due to the heat at that midday time same kept hidden in the high grass close to a tree and bush and never moved so we only got again head shots but still could not believe our luck in instinctively driving the right roads to spot something or better to say we always drive these roads but this day the luck was with us.



It looked as if same had only recently killed an animal with a black bushy tail and some monstrous claws and I guessed on honey badger as the remains were still very good visible close to the lion.



Due to the traffic jam and after we got our shots we decided to carry on as obviously some lion action will only take far later that day and we were definitely not in the mood to wait for the rest of the day at that sighting.

Although if we had knew that the Biyamiti loop will be that disappointingly quiet we might have stayed a bit longer at the lion. We only came across some tired baboons





and an even more sleepy elephant

until we were standing already at the Biyamiti weir where the ever present three banded plover obviously already waited for us



and the water dikkops were hiding in the shade under some rocks. Unfortunately other birds could not be located but I already guessed that on such water points it might be difficult to spot anything especially birds when the rest of the park is still full of water and large puddles.



Meanwhile it was close to check in time and we drove straight to Berg end Dal but for sure when such beauties with their big brown eyes occur







we cannot resist and simply had to capture them especially when finding between them such beautiful flowers



and only after quite a while after enough impalas had been photographed again we carried on.



to be continued...

The impies in the middle of all the wild flowers are sooo pretty

we noticed more white faced vultures in a tree

This one is a hooded vulture though

Great to spend time and read your TT Pumbaa

Lions and that Boon is priceless

Impies are always a pleasure to see being among the flowers stunning!

welcome back Pumba

indeed nice start

my prefered Amur Falcon