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Wonderful Bateleur picture. Such striking birds. Lovely to have been able to watch the protective behavior of the smaller birds.

The bateleur is a beauty . Thanks for sharing

Super of the Bateleur...must have been great to watch the interaction with the starlings.

Thanks for sharing.

I can't believe that you are back home again Normana53 and Torticat! Time really flies! Glad you made it back home safely though!

Looking forward to read all about your trip! What a lovely start with the beautiful Bateleur and "dancing" Kudus!

Norman,

Glad you made it home safe. Looking forward to seeing the pics. Four more days for me.

Daron

Thanks MM, Barry and Hilda, and Trrp-trrrrrrrr! Got another amazing Bateleur shot that will come later in the trip.

Daron - Hope you have a safe flight and a wonderful trip, I'll be looking for a trip report when you return.

Also love your Bataleur............we have yet to see one this trip!!

3:45 comes really early after enduring a two day flight and a long day of driving, but we were up and excited to get out to see what Kruger had in store.

Wouldn't you know that we would see the rare and unusual shortly after the suncame up.

Actually our day was rather fun, lots of birds, which are always a highlight for us. Like this Hornbill who was doing his best fan dance, attempting to lure in the ladies.

He didn't have much luck while we were there, hopefully his dance produced the desired results. I know that when I dance like that, Torticat can't resist (rolling on the floor laughing).
When we asked this fellow for directions, he wasn't really helpful, think he was too busy thinking about the weather and what he wanted to wear to dinner that night.

Spotted our first Ground Hornbill's of the trip this morning, none were banded, but all were in their usual black tie and tails, busy wandering through the bush.

Lots of little guys out and about if you look closely.


And this Drongo was almost as talkative and noisy as one of our cats.

Some wonderful flowers were blooming and the bright splashes of color among all the green put smiles on our faces.

As did the shenanigans of young Vervets back at camp.

Lovely start to your "real" TR - nice to see that you enjoy the little things so much - it certainly adds so much enjoyment to the whole Kruger experience. The kudu bulls doing the river dance is really a special pic for me

Ah.............................. I can almost smell it.

sigh

What a beautiful arry of sightings to start off the TR with . Thanks for sharing .

As usual your pics are great, cannot wait to hear more about your adventures

Special little fella above
Special photos and sightings

Love all the photos But that cutiepie of a baby vervet ..so sweet .. ag shame!!

We drove down towards Olifants on the back road and enjoyed more birds as well as the striped ones.


Then a little ball of poo rolled past.

And we had to run for our lives as we were attacked by a herd of killer Terrapins

and watched the smallifant with it's mother
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Tomorrow is a bush walk, have to get to bed early.