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I also love your 3 bachelors Noel! Beautifully captured!

Cute Warties with a well-tusked mom!!

Your bird pictures are all awesome! What a beautiful Bee-eater!

You are right the piglets are gorgeous

but also love your birdies especially the kingfisher, the bee eater and the starling

Thanks Noel

I am catching up, noel.

That maraboe is quite a unique sighting and I have never seen one like that.

The colourful birdies are also magnificent.

Those piggies...they are really cute and you got them at the right time.

Thank you for sharing and I am enjoying the TR...

Thanks you Trrp-Trrrr . Much appreciated your comments. I think Warthogs are one of the favorite animals of a lot of people. We're just a bit scared to say it. They have a good reputation, brave and has been known to put many a lion and cheetah on the run. Ugly but intelligent.



Thanks Hilda Those warthogs live up to a reputation- greedy pigs .



Thanks Pumbaa . Thought about you when I took those-Ah Pumbaa is here, I recall thinking. But also Vlakvarkvrou.



Hiya Kaapsedraai . Thanks for commenting hey! Like I said about the Marabou-I'll never forget it. Wondered how the piggie lost his tail? Guess we'll never know.

Moving along-the day is getting long, and its my last night. Feeling a bit gloomy like the overhead skies.
Practicing some infrasonic communication


And always great to see a Hooded Vulture. Somehow always look sad. Joining all the other raptors and just chillin in the trees.


This Hippo was negotiating he Sabie River.




This Baboon tried to do a Spiderman imitation


A white breasted Comorant


A lone Fish Eagle keeping vigilance at Sunset Dam.


White faced Duck and Black Winged Stilt hiding amongst the shrubs.


And its time for a rest at LS, except I somehow have some energy and decide I will explore what's in the camp for an hour or so.

Very few birds around Lower Sabie. Here's a sure indication that it is not a hot day-the bird bath all deserted


Saw this Sparrow of sorts


So I love flowers, and Barberton Daisies are a delight-had some in my garden a few years back.




And when you are looking at flowers, you notice some of the goggas too. This is a rather beautiful black and yellow bug. Blends so well with those yellow flowers.




A hippo from the restaurant deck


And a familiar sight to us all and quite sickening-makes you miss Kruger so much more

Some more exciting stuff from Lower Sabie
Down in the riverbed, the White Winged Weavers were displaying profusely.






Interspersed with some more flowers


And blessed with another sighting in LS of a Heuglin's Robin






The fountain that see as you take that walk along the river.


That master refuse removal-Dung Beetle-closest I have ever got to one.


And this one I call the 3-dot Beetle. Notice the water drops on the body.


And a weaver of sorts (I think)


Well that ended my short exploration of Lower Sabie, and delighted with a 2nd sighting of a Heuglin's Robin.

I love the pictures of the Hippo in the Sabie River Noel! There is something special about it! Beautiful bird pictures too! And the "Spiderman" Baboon ....

Stunning pictures of the yellow and black Bug on that yellow flower! According to my guide, it is a Blister Beetle. It secretes cantharidin which can blister the skin. Unfortunately I cannot find your "three-dot Beetle" in my guide. Maybe somebody else can assist? Beautiful flowers too!

It is very seldom that one doesn't find birds in the bird bath at Lower Sabie! In fact, I cannot recall that we have ever found the bird bath without the birdies!

How lucky for you to found another Heuglin's Robin! Awesome, as are the White Winged Weavers!

Thanks for sharing Noel!

Simply stunning noel your flower and bug pics are beautiful

Great TR, noel.

The reason is that you have included the beautiful and colourful flowers and the goggatjies. When in Kruger, it is not just about the Big ones but also the small creatures as well.

Wonder where the baboons is going to.. .love the angle of the shot

Looking at the view of the cars going over the bridge...makes me want to leave now for Kruger

Noel,

This episode was filled with so many special sightings and super great pics.

Sigh.....the view of the causeway.

Super pics of the flowers ...Barberton daisies are beautiful.

All the critters are captured superbly.... Like them in photos..not too keen being close to them.

Thanks for sharing.

Got a little waylaid with the replying but have been following closely

Had a chuckle reading about the headless fish eagle

Love the marabou with his inflated sac. Have never seen them do that yet. Will have to keep a beady eye on them from now

Love the photo of the fountain

and all the other lovely creatures great and small and colourful

Noel - you got some special birdies again. The Violet-backed Starling is a big one on my wishlist...

Also love the baboon going spiderman...

Hilda for identifying that yellow bug for me, I could not for the life of me remember what it was called, as I read about it here on the forum in someone else's TR, and I was too lazy to go and try and find it again. That "birdless" bath was a bit eerie, as you said, seldom there are no birds to be found. Thanks for commenting, appreciate that .


Hey Sheenaugh-Lee- Thanks so much for taking the time to comment, I appreciate it.



Thanks Kaapsedraai, Appreciate your kind comments . The Baboon was actually on the lookout for a more dominant male, it was a bit nervous. And I like all creatures-mosquitoes excluded. They are not insecets-they'r pests



Thank yo so much Trrp-Trrrrr, appreciate your comments. That causeway makes even me a bit sickly. Barberton Daisies .




Hi Sharifa, thanks you so much for taking the time to comment, I appreciate it . Headless fish eagles onlt appear in overcast conditions. Very rare sighting. Hope you get to see that 2nd inflatable sac-so special to see it. I was a bit shocked when I saw it at first, and thought the bird was sick, with a hole in the neck, enabling it to inflate the sac via the back hole That was until I read Roberts.



I do hope you get to see that Violet backed Starling (is that the new name these days?). Thanks for commenting Bushbuddies, appreciated

Have an hour or so before I must leave for church, so let's see if I can get another dose in the meantime. Perhaps finish the rest of the day? So, after an hour or so meandering around Lower Sabie, it time to go hunting for some big cats. Not that it matters, but it would be nice. I did not get to see any that afternoon, though this was the afternoon I saw the Civet. With the rain, I'm still sticking to the main tar road.
First up-Trrp-Trrrr's wonderful family


Red Billed Quellea


And I seem to have come across a lot of marital/family disputes-here another.

We are not on speaking terms tonight dear!


I'm telling you you should have let me get dinner tonight"


Well, you're sleeping on the branch tonight".


A large flock of Quellea were very active in the grass.








The Yellow beaked ones are non-breeding birds.