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I have just come back from Kruger and happened upon a nest in use and with a juvenile in it being fed by the female......Does anyone want to know where it is located?

We saw Saddle Bill storks on 5 diffferent occasions in May . This one was on the Mahonie loop near Punda Maria .

Browsing through some of my previous KNP trips I came across this photo of 2 Saddle Billed Storks performing their mating ritual. On my computer I have titled this photo as 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
This photo was taken in November 2009 on the Sweni Road. They were quite far in and I have had to crop the photo quite a bit.

I was in the Satara area on 28 June and 7 July, and for the first time ever, I saw juvenile Saddle-billed storks - 3 of them! On the 28th they were on the S41 close to Gudzani waterhole, with both adults about 50m away. On the 7th I found them closer to Gudzani dam (still on the S41), with the adults only 10m away. Remind me of the ugly duckling story....


Saddle-billed storks on Flickr


Saddle-billed Stork Imm1 on Flickr


Saddle-billed Stork Imm2 on Flickr

I took these pictures of the Saddle-billed Stork at the Nsemanidam close to Satara.

Saddle-billed stork by dinkybird, on Flickr

This was taken at Sunset Dam in the Kruger National Park.

This was taken at Sunset Dam in the Kruger National Park.

Great images

Few of our own sightings

Saw this pair on th S100 in April.


13041140412 137 by jansp, on Flickr

there were quite a few juveniles around, too.

13041140412 090 by jansp, on Flickr

Spotted east end S127. Another of my wife's great shots

Great series of images

Girivana near Satara

Literally saw at least one at every waterhole we stopped at. I took photos of them all and will go through them to see if we have seen some of the same individuals at different locations during our trip.

Busy sorting out our holiday Cd's from a couple of years back (2009) ...found these photos of a Saddlebill collecting grasses for a nest...