Kruger National Park – Day 4

Days 1, 2 and 3 are here, here and here

This was a transit day between Satara and Lower Sabie, taking the scenic route, which meant that we were on the road for 8 hours.

Birds, elephants, landscapes and a few antelope made up the photography of the day.

A Scops owl, very well hidden in a tree and pointed out to us by the SanParks staff member at the picnic site:

A few more attempts at photographing birds in flight, again with limited success, included a Bateleur and Wahlberg’s eagle.

Other bird sightings included a Namaqua Dove, Red Billed Oxpecker and Crested Barbet

An amazing sight, was that of a Lilac Breasted Roller busy anting, a behaviour I have never seen before or even heard of.

The scenery along the way was truly beautiful.

The number of elephants was amazing, especially the number of little ones. We even saw one that must have been no more than a few hours old, still very unsteady on its feet and with blood still visible on the mother’s hind legs (my photos unfortunately not really worth posting, but Liana’s video to follow and will be linked here). And where there are elephants, there must be dung beetles.