Hi everyone I am so sorry I hardly posted, I am leaving tomorrow to go back to south africa for two whole months so hopefully I will have many more pics for you once again I am sorry.

Wow Dan!   You lucky, lucky guy!   You can tell me all you like not to be jealous, but I'm afraid its too late.     Your life is taking off big time!

 I am soooooo happy for you.   Can you PM me and tell me how to find your Facebook page? 

Hello everyone sorry I have not been updating I have so much work to do for uni I will try and do some over the weekend for you all sorry.

Hey everyone heres a snippet from my trip, going to talk to you about some bird life to start with, Mankwe wildlife reserve has 150 bird species at one time, it was amazing to see all the swallows preparing to go back to us for the summer. I have some bird pictures hope you can help me to ID lol. Some are tough.

Any Ideas I think a little grebe and african darter? But I am not too sure

Egrets as you can see the divide between the reserve and the farm land.

Anyone have any idea who built this nest without looking at my facebook page

Thanks guys for letting me know

Right I am going to show you the first animal I saw on my first ever game drive so here goes...

My pictures are not brilliant but you can see what they are if not then all my pictrures ore on my facebook page so just PM me if you want to add . This wildlife reserve has two key conservation projects one with the white backed and cape vultures and one with the brown hyeane. I sadly did not see the hyena but I saw the two speices of vulture.

This is the dam where I was staying its beautiful apart from one thing, a power line runs through the reserve and the vultures sadly fly into it, however vulutres and baboons will sit on them which was quite good to see them close.

Mankwe is a reserve that makes it income from shooting (some people will disagree with this but it is a big money business). They do not like to habituate the animals the vehciles so this made the animals run away. It is more rewarding to see them like this, in pilansberg it was very different later of I shall show you pictures of what I mean.

Welcome back Dan, glad that things are going so well for you.  As for how many pics you can post... only 4 per post here in the forum.  You can however post more if you make a blog where you can post pics and type explanations etc.  Look at some of the other blogs that have been done, such as RogerH, Penny2 or Gerda etc for some examples.

Hello Dan!!  I am so glad you had a brilliant time in South Africa and am looking forward to hearing more about it and to seeing your pics.  Here is some info re posting them to help you.

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