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Lizet Grobbelaar

Post subject: Re: Kite: Yellow billed

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:09 am

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Very nice and so sharp!

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Rusty Justy

Post subject: Re: Kite: Yellow billed

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 3:06 pm

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Really good BIF shots those are....congrats! :clap:

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jacliz

Post subject: Re: Kite: Yellow billed

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 3:16 pm

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You should see how many shots I took just to get these two!

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Rusty Justy

Post subject: Re: Kite: Yellow billed

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:01 pm

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Well worth it though :twisted:

and thats the good thing about digital, it costs nothing to test finger speed on the shutter :lol:

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Bush Baptist

Post subject: Re: Kite: Yellow billed

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:10 pm

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I have got a pic of those 2 eating a snake, on the Olifants bridge!

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Rusty Justy

Post subject: Re: Kite: Yellow billed

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:39 pm

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Willing to share it?

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Bush Baptist

Post subject: Re: Kite: Yellow billed

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 1:09 pm

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Your wish.....

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Rusty Justy

Post subject: Re: Kite: Yellow billed

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 2:39 pm

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Thanks BB.........Thats one hell of a meal they got there!

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Bush Baptist

Post subject: Re: Kite: Yellow billed

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 6:15 pm

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I wonder what kind of snake it was. It was kind of light bluish.

I also had to flag someone down, who wanted to race through, but I asked her to stop for a minute while I got the pics.

Why they come to Kruger I don't know, when they ignore something unusual to see.

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Rusty Justy

Post subject: Re: Kite: Yellow billed

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 7:03 pm

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No Idea.......Possibly a mamba, Boomslang, maybe one of the cobras.......All depends on lighting

But it was a large snake none the less, and a pity it landed up as road kill.......As for the Rally drivers of the Park, I'd hate to go there....... :naughty:

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Bush Baptist

Post subject: Re: Kite: Yellow billed

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 8:17 pm

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Not so sure it was road kill. They might have caught it and started to eat it there.

I have seen a jackal buzzard flying with a cobra dangling from its beak.

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jacliz

Post subject: Re: Kite: Yellow billed

Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 2:03 pm

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In my photo he's carrying what looked like some sort of breakfast bar, thrown to him by someone on the bridge. Which part of "Feeding of animals is a serious offence" do people not understand?? :huh:

In another photo he's trailing a length of toilet paper! Spoilt the picture completely.

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Crested Barbet

Post subject: Re: Kite: Yellow billed

Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:39 pm

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One of my best pics of a yellow-billed kite taken in Shingwedzi.

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normana53

Post subject: Re: Kite: Yellow billed

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:20 am

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During our visit to Kruger this past September while on one of the Bridges near Letaba we watched a Yellow-Billed Kite riding the wind over the bridge for over a half hour, the effortless gliding was spectacular.

I watched him gliding sideways about 3 meters above the bridge deck from the south end all of the way to the north end of the bridge, he couldn't have been much more than a meter above my head when he silently slid by. It was amazing! All he did was ever so slightly move tail and flight feathers, to cruise back and forth.

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Bush Baptist

Post subject: Re: Kite: Yellow billed

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 2:12 pm

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Great pics Norm! This is a favourite place of the YBK. We saw 2 eating a snake on the bridge.

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