Tuludi Camp, Khwai private reserve : dry green season

[BRACQUENE]

Stunning "two headed " Wattled Crane and my favorite antilope at close range on top ! Thanks for sharing @Bush dog

[Zim Girl]

Beautiful pictures @Bush dog, always such a pleasure to read your reports.  I also really like the young giraffe in the misty blue light.

[michael-ibk]

This brings back fond memories. Khwai is an exceptionally pretty area, especially when it's lush and vibrant like that. Gorgeous photos! Did not know Sable are around there, very cool to see them.

[Bush dog]

Third day

 

Morning pictures :

 

We started the day with a beautiful dawn and a flight of 3 wattled cranes.

 

 

 

 

This is, I think, a juvenile black-chested snake eagle ?

 

 

Hyena

 

 

Zebras

 

 

 

Hippo

 

 

Giraffes

 

 

[Bush dog]

@Zim Girl @BRACQUENE

 

Thanks a lot for your kind words!

[Bush dog]

@michael-ibk

 

Thanks, Michael!

 

Sable is a common sighting in the area, hence the name of one of the other camps in the reserve, Sable Alley.

 

 

[Bush dog]

Third day

 

Afternoon pictures :

 

Young giraffe

 

 

Hippos :  some more territorial behaviours

 

 

 

 

 

Black heron with black-crowned night herons

 

 

The local pack of wild dogs (17 individuals) was spotted, by Palipi, in the mopane, near a waterhole in the western part of the reserve.

 

 

 

 

Twenty minutes after our arrival, they decided to go hunting.  We then tried to follow them but the configuration of the terrain forced us quickly to give up.

 

[Kitsafari]

what a spectacular dawn! and what stunning shots of the wattled cranes. 

 

sables are just gorgeous. my top favourite antelope too. 

[Hads]

Impressive big boys those 2 Lions.

Also what a cracking sunrise.

Enjoying your TR @Bush dog

[madaboutcheetah]

balipi perhaps ? Brother of Balemetse .... I haven’t seen him in a long long time

[Bush dog]

@madaboutcheetah

 

Yes, Hari it must be Balipi.  He told me that his brother is actually managing Nxai Pan.

[Bush dog]

@Kitsafari

@Hads

 

Thanks a  lot for your kind words.

[madaboutcheetah]

8 hours ago, Bush dog said:

@madaboutcheetah

 

Yes, Hari it must be Balipi.  He told me that his brother is actually managing Nxai Pan.

 

Ditto .... that's the guy!!!

[Peter Connan]

On 3/11/2020 at 12:47 PM, Bush dog said:

 

 

 

 

 

This is an magnificent photo Mike! Well done!

[Bush dog]

@Peter Connan

 

Thank you, Peter!  Taken with my cellphone.

[Peter Connan]

Time to sell my gear Mike...

[Bush dog]

@Peter Connan

 

Or to buy a cellphone with a good camera?

[Bush dog]

Fourth day

 

Calmer day with lots of birds.

Morning pictures :

 

Brown-hooded kingfisher

 

 

Southern ground hornbills

 

 

Giraffe and impala

 

 

Giraffes

 

 

 

 

 

Zebras

 

 

 

Tsessebes

 

 

Coppery-tailed coucal

 

 

Female reedbuck

 

[Wild Dogger]

I know these hornbills

 

[Bush dog]

@Wild Dogger

 

What do you mean by "I know thse hornbills"?

[Bush dog]

Black-winged stilts

 

 

 

Water thick-knees

 

 

 

Wood sandpiper

 

 

Three-banded plover

 

 

Woodland kingfischer

 

 

Great white egret

 

 

African pipit

 

 

Dusky lark

 

[Bush dog]

The afternoon of the fourth day was extremely quiet and poor in terms of photography.

 

 

Pied kingfisher

 

 

Squacco heron

 

 

 

Thirsty elephants at dusk.

 

 

 

[BRACQUENE]

@Bush dog

 

Great bird photos as always ( that kingfisher ! ) and what an atmospheric dusk!

[Wild Dogger]

@Bush dogthat´s what I mean, scene looks familiar to what we´ve seen in November in the Khwai Private Reserve:


 

[Bush dog]

@BRACQUENE

 

Thank you so much for your nice words.