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WoW - That jumping jackals are amazing - I also could have watched them for ages

Leachy, what an amazing sighting.... that is so very special

Leachy,

Once again you have captured a sequence of super special of the Jackals. ...definitely not an everyday sighting.

Thanks for sharing.

thank you

sheenaugh-lee

and tjanssen - welcome aboard..... i am already in the mods bad books for too many photos !!!

and pumbaaaaaaa

and meandering mouse

and trrp-trrrrrrrr

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i needed to get to komatipoort for supplies so left the two fundraisers on the s28 and moved on.

on my return to croc bridge

i was pleasantly surprised to see that wendy and heksie had met up with aat and ellie.........

this was remarkable 'cause the last time i saw aat and ellie was almost a year ago in the same camp......
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having posed for a group photo and exchanged pleasantries it was back to lower sabie.

this striped cuckoo
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and these two leopards
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and these mud wrestlers at the place where the young women bathe
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i popped around to sunset before camp and found this crocodile with his prize catch
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he had caught it right next to where i was parked

but then decided to swim all the way across to the other side

where he proceeded to try and beat it into submission......
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quite a large fish indeed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and what impressed me was how high the croc lifted himself out of the water in his efforts to stun his prey..
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Quite impressive crocodile sequence

These guys obviously are made for the flood as we never ever saw that much and so many of them as this year and some even do have a quite impressive size.....

I have seen LITs of leopards and lions, but ZIT is a first.

Leachy,

Cuckoo is stunning.

..Wonderful sequence of pics of the croc preparing his meal.

Whew, action shots indeed. I am wondering if that is a Barbel? It seems to have whiskers.

So jumping Jack Flash actually turned out to be a jumping jack Jackal.

I wonder what tackle old man croc was using. Impressive size barbel.

Leachy, caught up again to this stunning TR and pics, Tree climbing Zebra and all. Wow!!

WOW!!!! LeachY that croc sequence is awesome you were so lucky to see that happen in front of you gelukkige blikskottel

thanks pumbaaaaaaaa



welcome aboard madinga..


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thanks again kingfisher person..
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yip meandering mouse.. i could tick that off against my list of cats....
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hey sparrow..... you stuttering again ????

(like a leaping lep leopard??)
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hi philip..great to have you back here again
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ja miessies erries....they say that the better you are... the luckier you get ?!?

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while cruising around the mlondozi region

playing "hide and go seek" with the sun

i heard the unusual

ak-er-ak........

rak-kak........ (not to use an afrikaans accent here)

kacker

call of the european roller up above and there were a number of them flitting about ...
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i enjoy the way they split their tail feathers when slowing down.....
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they were high and low.
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and these two magpie shrikes

having a nervous chatter in the gusting wind before flapping away
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a while later .......................

a headless big bird..........


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this little steenbokkie caught my attention as it was fairly close to the road..
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only then did i see the kori bustard
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and then for the first time ever in kruger

i witnessed this magnificent bird actually flying



after visiting the kalahari and seeing an abundance of flying bustards i was convinced that the kruger bustards were a walk only variety
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just before the sabie river weir

this amazing python was demonstrating the art of rectilinear progression
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i would imagine that there are a lot of unpleasant "smells" along this busy stretch of tar road
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it was my friends.. the fund raisers.... last night in lower sabie

so i popped around to have some "ox blood" with them....

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was fun.........



got quite legless .....