Soft evening light on our mountain with the new coffer dam in the foreground A mighty male Warthog A Tree Squirrel at the entrance to her nest Female Nyala greeting each other Collar - one of our three male Lions Notch - my favourite male of the brotherhood Mullet - the third brother Our smaller Lioness. She is missing her sister who is keeping a low profile as she is raising two young cubs Our male Cheetah on patrol busy scent marking his territory Male Cheetah mugshot The recently introduced crocodile went walk about for a while but is now back at the dam Hyena mum and newly born pup Hyena mugshot - not a pretty sight Inquisitive youngster
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Pride of place this week is this Bateleur circling overhead with a hare impaled in its talons A friendly Striped Kingfisher allowed me to approach right up to it as it was sunning itself on a branch There has been a male Saddle-billed Stork in residence for the last couple of weeks Saddle-billed Stork strutting his stuff Fish Eagle Crested Barbet A flock of Red-faced Mousebirds perched in this tree and then dropped down to drink at the waters edge Red-faced Mousebird A Hamerkop hunting in the shallows in soft evening light
Juvenile White-crested Helmet-Shrike Hamerkop Male Brown-hooded Kingfisher Male Saddle-billed Stork African Harrier-Hawk
There was quite a lot of activity around the house the other morning with several not so often seen birds putting in an appearance African Green-Pigeon Green Wood-Hoopoe Grey-headed Bush-Shrike Retz's Helmet-Shrike Greater Honeyguide juvenile Brown-hooded Kingfisher A grainy ID image of an uncommon and secretive breeding migrant, the Levaillant's Cuckoo. It is a brood parasite to the Arrow-marked and other Babblers.They are due to depart in May so I am lucky to have seen it. Red-eyed Dove
An action sequence of a Brown-hooded Kingfisher cooling off in our evaporation pan A Little Sparrowhawk also arrives to quench its thirst As does this Kurrichane Thrush with its diagnostic orange bill and dark malar stripe A male Chinspot Batis hawking insects in the tree canopy adjacent to the house
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