Showing posts with label Water Buffalo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Water Buffalo. Show all posts

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Birds and mammals from our recent Kruger trip

 

The waterholes were spectacular


A distant white-fronted bee-eater


White Helmet Shrike


White-bellied Sunbird


Cape Buffalo heading for water



Southern Ground Hornbill


Roan standing proud


Quelia


Mongoose



Meve's Starlings



Kurricane Thrush


Hoopoe


Elephant



Black-crowned Tchagra




Africa - love it !

Heuglin's Robin

Magpie Shrikes

Marico Sunbird


Mozambique Batis

Oribi

Weaver sp

White-browed Robin




White-fronted Bee-eater

African Fish Eagle

Bushbuck - what lovely markings

Young hyena

Impala with oxpecker

Tawny Eagle

and another white helmet shrike

A few more Kruger phone snaps

 

Stralitzia  Regina - this has to be one of the best flowers in the world. I have a few at home but afraid mine are plastic !!


All the roofs were like this inside - I layed awake at night wondering how many spiders were tucked away in there and what could drop on me ! 


Red-winged Starling begging for lunchtime scraps 


Pied Kingfisher on one of the many bridges


Sightings board in Skukuza camp. 7 lion sightings that day


Lion on a cape buffalo, guarding it from thieving hyenas


A well visited waterhole - there are many and all are busy in the dry season. It's their only form of water


A marker to show the flood level in 2013. Visitors had to be rescued by helicopters from the rooftops when all the rivers burst


A distant hyena flomped in a muddy waterhole. There were masses of vultures also coming in to drink and bathe


Every bridge had elephants, just beautiful


I think this was Oliphants camp, Simon chilling and birding. What a lovely hut for a couple of nights x




Glad that there are electric fences at all the camps


Kruger as far as the eye can see


One of the bridges where you are allowed to leave you car - if it is safe !



Impala


Giraffe


Elephants coming for an afternoon drink