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Philip1

Post subject: Re: Sandy and Silver Bird:City Slickers at it again

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:24 am

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Location: Far South in South Africa.

Magic

Giraffe with "crooked" neck :thumbs_up:

Lovely pic of "Jakals". :thumbs_up:

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Pikkie

Post subject: Re: Sandy and Silver Bird:City Slickers at it again

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:57 am

Joined: Sat Sep 09, 2006 2:33 pm
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Location: Limpopo

Love your photos, pretty awesome!

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wanderw

Post subject: Re: Sandy and Silver Bird:City Slickers at it again

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 12:38 am

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Joined: Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:34 pm
Posts: 1048
Location: Heart - Grootkolk, Soul - KTP, Body - far too far south most of the time!

Catching up again! :thumbs_up:

Love your springboks in the dust, superb sighting and pix of the playful lions :dance:

, and a great spotted way to enjoy your rusks! :wink:

Thanx COS!

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Trrp-trrrrrrrr

Post subject: Re: Sandy and Silver Bird:City Slickers at it again

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 5:51 am

Virtual Ranger

Joined: Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:57 pm
Posts: 2668
Location: 2012 km..... to Paradise

Cape of Storms,

Gorgeous silhouette :cam:

of the Kudu's. :clap:

...They are so graceful. :hmz:

Wow!! what a lucky coffee break you had.. most obliging to sit near you. :mrgreen:

I learned something new today... about the difference between KTP and KNP giraffe :dance:

..thanks you. :thumbs_up:

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Cape of Storms

Post subject: Re: Sandy and Silver Bird:City Slickers at it again

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 4:43 pm

Junior Virtual Ranger

Joined: Sun Feb 07, 2010 5:26 pm
Posts: 707
Location: Cape Town

@Trrp-trrrrrrrr

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I learned something new today... about the difference between KTP and KNP giraffe ..thanks you

@hilda

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I never realised that the KTP Giraffes look different from those in KNP Cape of Storms! I'll check it out next week!

Thanks!! Not majorly different but still just enough to make it interesting!

@wanderw

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Love your springboks in the dust, superb sighting and pix of the playful lions , and a great spotted way to enjoy your rusks!

Thank you - Springboks form a large part of the next instalment so I hope you like it!

@Pikkie

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Love your photos, pretty awesome!

@Philip1

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Magic Giraffe with "crooked" neck Lovely pic of "Jakals".

@barryels

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Those golden kitty youngsters is really a hand full it seems

I think they are and always ready to play

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Sharifa

Post subject: Re: Sandy and Silver Bird:City Slickers at it again

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:00 pm

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Absolutely stunning pics of the playful lions :clap:

Love the jackal too and the poor giraffe with the crooked neck although he does not seem bothered by it

:dance:

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Cape of Storms

Post subject: Re: Sandy and Silver Bird:City Slickers at it again

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:17 pm

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Joined: Sun Feb 07, 2010 5:26 pm
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Location: Cape Town

Sharifa wrote:

Absolutely stunning pics of the playful lions :clap:

Love the jackal too and the poor giraffe with the crooked neck although he does not seem bothered by it

:dance:

Thanks !!!

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Cape of Storms

Post subject: Re: Sandy and Silver Bird:City Slickers at it again

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:18 pm

Junior Virtual Ranger

Joined: Sun Feb 07, 2010 5:26 pm
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Location: Cape Town

The next part of our day made up for all the sadness of the previous afternoon. As we approached the same spot where the dead faun was born we see what we were waiting for yesterday! Another newborn!! He must have just been born when we arrived... he had not even stood up yet!

Immediately he was named Pumpkin by my girls!

Pumpkin is terribly wobbly!

Face Plant!!

Mom gives a helping shove to get pumpkin up and going!

Horns can be handy too!

MOM!!! enough cleaning... I can do this walking thing!!!

Whoooo hoooooooo I can stand by myself!

And now I am off.

Time join up with the rest of my herd!

Amongst all the excitement of pumpkin coming into this world alive and kicking we could still feel the sadness of the mom who lost her faun the day before.

This poignant picture shows the life and death in the Kgalagadi.

The mom was still trying to get the baby up after 24hours.

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Sharifa

Post subject: Re: Sandy and Silver Bird:City Slickers at it again

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:23 pm

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Joined: Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:22 pm
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Location: Centurion, Gauteng
Award: Angel of the Year Award: Small Parks Promoter of the Year (2012)

The beauty of birth made up for all the sadness of the day before :dance:

Well captured :clap:

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Jan van Wyk

Post subject: Re: Sandy and Silver Bird:City Slickers at it again

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:31 pm

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Joined: Sun Dec 25, 2011 8:37 pm
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Award: Sighting of the Year - Birds (2012)

Superb rare moment capture.......great images ...take a bow :clap:

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Pumbaa

Post subject: Re: Sandy and Silver Bird:City Slickers at it again

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:34 pm

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Award: Birder of the Year (2011)
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Location: Enjoying Springtime!

I am still feeling with the poor mom :cry:

although it is the law of the nature that only the fittest will survive - At least I wish her many many more little ones at a later stage

The newborn is sooooo cute :thumbs_up:

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Kaapsedraai

Post subject: Re: Sandy and Silver Bird:City Slickers at it again

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:12 pm

Junior Virtual Ranger

Joined: Tue Jan 26, 2010 7:02 pm
Posts: 501
Location: Bellville, Cape Town

Brilliant sequence of 'getting into the real world' 'Pumpkin' shots of the springbok. :cam:

I can just imagine the feeling, sitting there and whilst this is happening, you firing away to capture these brilliant moments for us and above all, now we having the privilege to see it as well. :popcorn:

This moment must have been a high light for the girls. :hmz:

Thank you, Cape of Storms :dance:

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Meandering Mouse

Post subject: Re: Sandy and Silver Bird:City Slickers at it again

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 5:22 am

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Location: meandering between senility and menopause
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I just love Pumkin

thank you for my morning smile

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Trrp-trrrrrrrr

Post subject: Re: Sandy and Silver Bird:City Slickers at it again

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:01 am

Virtual Ranger

Joined: Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:57 pm
Posts: 2668
Location: 2012 km..... to Paradise

Cape of Storm,

Thank you for sharing Pumpkin"s first few minutes with us :thumbs_up:

....a real little cutie pie. :dance:

.....sure the girls were filled with joy and lots of excitement at this special sighting. :hmz:

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GavinW

Post subject: Re: Sandy and Silver Bird:City Slickers at it again

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:41 am

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Joined: Tue Jun 28, 2005 9:01 am
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Location: Cape Town
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We really need to visit the KTP whilst the calves are being born :mrgreen:

Thanks for sharing :dance:

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