From Floods and Surprises in River beds

[Flutterby]

A lovely variety of sightings.

Cute vervet.

[Alf]

Love those bee eaters

[Lisbeth]

What a great sighting of the gymnogene versus weavers

Also the vervets eating weeds is not bad

Luckily not too much to catch up on

[Mel]

The vervet was feeling a little blue

I always like watching those herons "surfing" on hippos. Looks hilarious every time again
And actually, the stork seems to be on top of the croc too. Cool angle in that shot

[Pumbaa]

You two have a great eye for detail, Pumbaa!

Amazing the circle of life going on there at Sunset.

And interesting the monkey eating the reeds!

(They are called Blouaap, or Blue Monkey in Afrikaans! )

We simply love to watch animals

A lovely variety of sightings.

Cute vervet.

Between the quiet parts, the others were quite busy

Love those bee eaters

They are always so colourful

[Pumbaa]

What a great sighting of the gymnogene versus weavers

Also the vervets eating weeds is not bad

Luckily not too much to catch up on

It was amazing to see the vervets eating the reeds

The vervet was feeling a little blue

I always like watching those herons "surfing" on hippos. Looks hilarious every time again
And actually, the stork seems to be on top of the croc too. Cool angle in that shot

I am always happy when any kind of birds do surf on the hippos back

[Pumbaa]

As we wanted to still spend a bit time in camp on the veranda we finally hit the road back to camp but for sure had to stop for a resting giraffe youngster



same obviously needed a break whilst the rest of its family was feeding happily on the bushes close by.



Unfortunately the rest of our drive along the private road was disappointingly quiet but nevertheless we then had a bit more time on our veranda and after I again filled up the bird bath with water the first visitors appeared in form of a squirrel



and a white bellied sunbird.



At least it was a relaxing time on the veranda and also a woodland kingfisher



as well as a francolin were around as well.





Our afternoon drive then was in fact unnecessary as it was dead quiet now but as we only left late and only drove until the Biyamiti causeway it did not matter and at least we could capture the view with the mountains in the background.


Somehow this night it cooled down extremely and compared to last night we slept very well after we enjoyed another lovely braai.

Wednesday, 13. February 2019 – Biyamiti – Skukuza

Roads we paid a visit on: S139 – S23 – S114 – H1-1 – S65 – S1 – H11 – S42 – H11 – H4-1 – H12 – S83 – H11

Unfortunately today it was again moving day and after the obligatory morning coffee we had to leave this wonderful place but luckily we still could drive along the S139 which we for sure did and we took it slow. Another blue waxbill was willing to pose,



as well as a Wahlberg’s eagle,



a hamerkop,

[Pumbaa]

and a woodland kingfisher.



Overall as already said the vegetation along that road was extreme thick so we did not expect to see that much, however, we enjoyed every meter on this road and so we sneaked on same to drag the drive a bit longer. We stopped for quite a lot of bushes with lots of monkey oranges





and to our luck we spotted once again on that road a verreaux’s giant eagle owl



eying us suspiciously from the tree in which same was sitting



unfortunately it was already very cloudy with more and more dark grey ones in between but it was still dry but we heard already thunder coming closer. At least the two buffaloes we came across did not bother and they continued unimpeded with their breakfast.



The typical impala shot



and also white backed vultures were around as well



such as an African hoopoe which is also a bird we often see on that road





and mom rhino with her little one still enjoyed the closeness of each other - it was such a peaceful moment.



to be continued…..

[Richprins]

Very different once it cools down, hey Pumbaa?

Quite unusual for the owl to sit in the open like that!

Lovely rhino in the riverbed setting!

[Alf]

Strange to see that road so quiet