Along the Limpopo river (Pafuri)

[Gerhard]

The afternoon we drove to Crooks Corner...

Now this is super special as we can get out of the vehicles and walk around due to being in the Makuleke concession.

This meant we could go and walk in the dry Limpopo river bed with nothing between us and Mozambique and Zimbabwe but dry sand...

The drive went as follows

Zebra carcass with white backed vulture on the ground as well as a bunch in the surrounding trees





Finally I see my 1st Eland in the Kruger...



I however still need to see all 4 of the spiral horns in one day... (bushbuck did not read the script)

[Gerhard]

At some stage we stopped as the Meve's Starlings were going ballistic Johna stopped the vehicle. Walked a bit closer looked through the Bino's and called us to come have a look...



Relaxed in the tree not at all disturbed by the Meve's starlings is a huge Black Mamba





Absolutely amazing animal...

[Gerhard]

To give you an idea how Crooks Corner looked like



Mozambique


Zimbabawe


However there were some sections still with water with the hippo and crocodiles in attendance...

[Gerhard]

The next morning we did another walk in the Fever Tree forsest...

We left camp just as soon as it was light enough.

On the edge of the grass savanna we found this buffalo herd.

I have seen the broken horn cow on numerous occations...







As can be clearly seen the buffalo's condition were not looking good

[150class]

Absolutely amazing photos!!!

Keep them coming

[MarkV]

Awesome photos. Thanks for sharing

[Weimman]

Awesome pics!
Thanks for sharing.

[HoustonHunter]

Great photos, thanks for sharing!

[critter69]

Very cool

[Gerhard]

Thanks for the feedback guys.

Very happy that you like the photos

[tradtiger]

Thanks for sharing these amazing photos!

[Gerhard]

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[Gerhard]

For the afternoon session I decided I would want to walk again into the Fever Trees.

Most of the guys tought I was nuts as it was 15:00 and the temprature hovering at 36C with a high humidity.

But I wanted to go experience a late afternoon in the Fever trees and Riverine thickets.

Johna was lead and Varun was back up with me and another birder walking as the rest depart into the open game viewers.

As we walked into the lala palm savanna a little gem sat looking at us...





The little red-billed Firefinch is really one of the lowveld's flying gems...