Yesterday afternoon and evening, we spent lots of time looking at birds and hanging with lions. This is the Cape Glossy Starling. It often looks black, but when the sun hits it right it's an amazing blue.
This is the Yellow Hornbill. They are very plentiful and quite striking birds.
We hung out for over an hour with the lion pride since they have finished eating and will likely leave the area tomorrow. They were active for a bit--here they are playing.
This is our tracker Temba. You can see from the photo how close we can get to these Lions. We can do this because they've had a big kill they eat and laze around for a few days. If they were hunting, we couldn't get nearly as close. It's great how the rangers know exactly which animals we can get close to and which we can't.
Isn't he a beauty!!
He and his brother are always hanging together, often touching while they sleep or relax. It was such a privilege to get to know this particular pride.
We had a wonderful sunset while we drank wine in the bush.
Our ranger, Alfred, showed me how to set my camera to use it at night. This is one of the male lions in the light of the Range Rover. Learning what my camera can do was an amazing plus on this trip.
This morning the pack of wild dogs needed to eat one of there two meals a day. They were on the hunt and we followed them.
This hyena was hanging around waiting for them to leave. The hyenas eat the bones. We saw their poop and it's completely white.
Leaving the Impala kill we saw this Hammerkop fishing. It uses it's legs to stir up little fish in the water.
We saw seven rhinos wandering through the bush. They are so worried about poachers here that they ask us not to post any photos of rhinos. A very good day. Instead of rushing from one animal to another, we spent lots of time with the lions and the wild dogs.
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