And then the rain set in or at dusk the bush comes alive

[Pumbaa]

Lots of birdies around.

And more to follow

[Pumbaa]

You Europeans like your storks, hey Pumbaa?

Great pics. Wonder what the eagle is eating?

Yip - Storks are great - I guess it is a sort of rodent

[Pumbaa]

A world of birds

The world of birds will continue soon

[Pumbaa]

The last stretch along the tar road shortly before the camp was once again a brilliant stop for general game and so we met a mother zebra with her gorgeous little one



and for sure it was also time to capture the ever present impalas whilst feeding.



It was such a wonderful sunny and long day on the road with lots of amazing sightings and so we decided to not leave again for any late afternoon drive



but to start our braai as well and because tomorrow would again be moving day we simply admired the view from our verandah



with something to eat and drink.



Tuesday, 13. February 2018 – Crocodile Bridge - Biyamiti

Explored roads: H4-2 – S28 – S137 – H4-2 – H4-1 – S21 – S114 – S23 – S114 – S139 – S25

Today was moving day again and although we were sad to leave Crocodile Bridge we were already looking forward to Biyamiti and on top we were not leaving completely our beloved area around the S28 already and so a couple of drives on that road were still granted.

Gladly today we could finally capture a helmeted guinea fowl chicks who were running excitedly around between the legs of the adult birds and normally same will dash out of sight completely



before you can get a decent shot but today we were lucky in capturing the cute striped fluff balls.



Needless to say that we chose again the S28 and same once again proved to be one of the best birding roads this year – Today we again stopped right in the beginning for another black shouldered kite and now even with a kill



in form of a rodent and we really felt a bit sorry for same but the beautiful raptor need food as well.



How wonderful it was that we this year even got to see a great number of this raptor in the entire park as normally this bird only occurs sporadically for us.

[Pumbaa]

We stayed with same until even the last piece of the rodent had been swallowed and the kite finally flew away.



The sun just came up and the light was simply beautiful and so we stopped for a hungry impala ram,



one of the many unidentified brown raptors



followed by another one which I think is a Wahlberg.



Then another highlight birdingwise followed – a black coucal – a bird which we do only saw I guess twice so far during our Kruger trips



and it were even two of them!



Gladly these birds were cooperative and allowed us to take shot after shot



without flying away.



A shy duiker luckily stopped long enough for us to allow a couple of shots



and the mom was even willing to show us her little one who was lying in the grass close to her



and to our delight we even came across a burchell’s coucal as well.



to be continued.....

[Richprins]

Never seen a baby guineafowl nor a black coucal, Pumbaa!

What lovely shots.

And a great food pic!

[Lisbeth]

Lovely Black-shouldered kite! Even if that mouse tail sucks

I love the black cougal Never seen one and did not even know about it

Beautiful weather

[Flutterby]

Such cute little chicks!

That steak looks yummy!

Wow, a Black Coucal...also never heard of it before!!

[Ratel]

Black Coucal!

Your large group of Giraffes contains only one animal?

...and that steak looks a little rare for my liking

I do wish we could be in the park at the same time Pumbaa. We could both stop to photograph the same Impalas and enjoy causing a massive roadblock of confused passers-by!
The Pied Kingfisher is a favourite bird of mine so thank you for putting one in and making me smile.

[Pumbaa]

Never seen a baby guineafowl nor a black coucal, Pumbaa!

What lovely shots.

And a great food pic!

Great that I can present you something you have not seen so far Always a pleasure - At least it took us quite a couple of trips until we got that Guinea fowl chick shot