Shinde dogs and Selinda cats

[Bush dog]

@@Towlersonsafari

 

Thank you for your comments. This trip, in particular, was splendid but for me, in any case, every trip in the bush is a feast!

[Bush dog]

The next morning, we spotted the dogs but they were only five. Once again, we followed them. Obviously, emitting their contact calls, they were trying to find the two missing.

 

 

Very quickly,we saw the latter rush, leaping into the tall grass.

 

 

They found themselves close by a pond, in fact a small part of a floodplain not yet dried up. Close to it, there was also the carcass, already well begun but not entirely devoured, of a freshly killed impala, with two yellow-billed kites (saw a lot of those birds during this trip) on it. We thought that, in the early morning, the impala was killed by the five dogs, during the hunt, they lost the other two and after having previously fed itselves, they began to look for them in order to share, together, the remains.

 

 

The alpha male was the first to take a piece.

 

 

Meanwhile, the kites had of course flown away and circled over the pack……..

 

[optig]

@wilddog You outdo even yourself-I just love your photos of wild dogs. They are arguably the best photos of dogs that I've ever seen. That photo of a kite is just wonderful as well. What type of kite is it?

[marg]

@@Bush dog...WOW! just fabulous!

[Bush dog]

@@optig

 

I do really appreciate your kind words, thanks a lot!

 

The bird is a yellow-billed kite.

[Bush dog]

@@optig

 

I do really appreciate your kind words, thanks a lot!

 

As well as yours, @@marg

[Big_Dog]

Fantastic stuff! Out standing photos, with the dogs being particularly spectacular.
I am also looking forward to the tale of the lion and the axe...

[Atravelynn]

Looked like the wild dog was running right over you! Fantastic wild dogs.

[Bush dog]

@@Big_Dog

 

Thank you. There are some more dogs pictures coming.

[Bush dog]

@@Atravelynn

 

Thank you again. To get decent pictures of wild dogs, there is always a part of luck. What's making it difficult is the fact that those guys are, most of the time, in motion and also it's not easy to anticipate their movements.

[Bush dog]

Most of the carcass was left, at least for a moment, to the two that were missing. I do not remember if the latter were the two subadults, but I’m sure one was certainly…….

[Atravelynn]

@@Atravelynn

 

Thank you again. To get decent pictures of wild dogs, there is always a part of luck. What's making it difficult is the fact that those guys are, most of the time, in motion and also it's not easy to anticipate their movements.

I know that so well and there are often several in motion in different directions.

 

Lots more great wild dogs!

Edited December 24, 2016 by Atravelynn

[Bush dog]

Thanks Lynn, some more wild dogs!

 

And then it was each for oneself.

 

 

 

 

[Bush dog]

And it was still each for onseself……..

[Kitsafari]

more dogs! selinda rocks with dogs!

 

im probably jumping ahead of you - and if so, don't answer, but if not, did they ever find the missing two dogs?

[madaboutcheetah]

Hi Mike,  can hardly wait to catch up with this report later today ...... been away chasing those striped cats!!!

[pault]

@@Bush dog Good stuff, and I enjoyed the lions and aze stroy at breakfast this morning. Perfect way to start the day - breakfast story of champions!

[Bush dog]

@@Kitsafari

 

more dogs! selinda rocks with dogs!

 

I'm still in the Shinde part of this report, not yet in the Selinda part that will soon follow. In fact in Selinda, I only saw dogs in the distance.

 

im probably jumping ahead of you - and if so, don't answer, but if not, did they ever find the missing two dogs?

 

They already found the two missing dogs. It's on #28.

 

Sorry, if I may have been obscure in the text.

[Bush dog]

@@madaboutcheetah

 

Hi Hari, I thought you were gone to Australia. Was there not an important cricket match on Boxing Day?

 

Did you find the striped cats?

[Bush dog]

@@pault

 

Thanks a lot for your comments!

[madaboutcheetah]

Hi Mike,

 

Yes there is- but, Australia vs Pakistan..... no interest for me.

 

Yes, brilliant sightings.... Thanks

[Bush dog]

Once they had finished their meal, they decided to stay somewhere near the pond. I noticed that they approached the water cautiously. I guess they must be afraid of crocodiles.

 

 

The wattled crane on the other side of the water.

 

 

One of them preferred to settle in the shade of the car.

 

 

 

 

 

[Bush dog]

After having quenched their thirst, the wild dogs set out again as if they were going to hunt again, causing a group of tsessebes to scatter all over the place. Maybe, it was only a game this time, they gave up and went to lie in the shade of a large tree where we left them.

 

A little later in the morning, we heard the alarm call of the baboons. It was obviously not because of us. So, we looked around and we spotted in the distance, far from where we had seen it the day before, the couple of lions. It was again on an island in the middle of a wide open space. Having almost joined them, they are mating for, no doubt, the umpteenth time. It will take exactly 36 minutes to see them start again. They were probably near the end of their relationship.

 

 

Scanning around.

 

[Zubbie15]

Wow really lovely photos of the wild dogs and lions @@Bush dog. I'm really enjoying this report.

[Bush dog]

@@Zubbie15

 

Thanks a lot. Very happy to hear that you are enjoying it!