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Brilliant bateleur sighting - really lovely pics of the juv ones trying out their steps

Wonder what event he/she plans to enter at the feathered Olympics


Bring on my favourite

Fantastic bateleurs LS - what a crowd of them

I particularly love the close-up shots, and of course the joker in the pack

Great images which is making the wait for my visit in December unbearable. Keep them coming please.

Haha the bateleurs remind me of the hokie pokie... "you put your left foot in, you put your left foot out..."
Hillarious!!!

rofl at the bateleur sequence. Flying lesson/practice, maybe???

Whatever it was, thanks for sharing

Hi Lionspoon.
Also witnessed this "falling flat on my face" behaviour by an adult bataleur at Grootkolk.
Maybe there is the equivalent of the Marula tree growing in KTP.

As far as cheetah sightings went,we were very fortunate with numerous sightings during the week after you guys left including the mom and three cubs near Sitzas.

Thanks for sharing your TR.

Hi LS and Spots, thanks again for the braai together, just got back after spending 4 weeks there and as u said KTP was different this year

Just caught up here LS

So mant raptors together

Dancing Bateleur is absolutely priceless!

Other sightings of the day:

Steenbok with an itch, just outside the camp:


The red dunes in the early morning:


White-backed vulture against a deep blue sky:


Cape Cobra, slightly hostile:




Black-headed heron at Gunong (I think):


One of the very few occasion with a BSE:




A cheerfully coloured LBR:


At GK camp:

Black-faced waxbill

The noisy sociable weaver lout.

Bliss!


The downer of the day was this red-necked falcon… I shouted “Stop”! to take a photo of it as I had thechallenge going with a certain Duke E. and this was the first red-necked falcon we had seen so far. (If I had know then what I know now, I would have never bothered to attempt to photograph this guy )

Anyway, Spots slammed the breaks so hard that the camera on the backseat smashed into the armrest between the two frontseats… I don’t blame SO though… Was my fault just as well. How can one possibly be so daft to let the camera sit unsecured on the backseat like that??? Still awaiting the quote for the repair…

First of all - sincere apologies for not having posted anything in over a weeks.
Real life kept me busy and at night I was so knackered that I couldn't face doing anything
anymore that involved using my brain.

Also - big thanks for coming here to read, to catch up, to look, to comment

Tony T, MM, Philip, barryels, hilda, Trrp, anne-marie, Scouter, Pumbaa,
wanderw, Nina, anne catherine, Mel, billyf, PJL, Touareg, Melrockson,
Timbits, enrico, rjm, Duke, Cape of Storms

Highly appreciated!!!

And I'm certainly happy that most of you liked the bateleur sequence - after all, you couln't escape it.

I learned somewhere else that this behaviour does have a purpose:

That Cobra is something to keep me

Sorry, billyf, we did see the brownie, but I don't have any shots of it (yet )

Please do! Can't get enough reports from KTP.