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Kruger National Park 2010

A blog from my recent trip to Kruger in October 2010.

Day 16 - 25-10-2010

Marloth Park, around 6.30am, having coffee and watching birds.

Today I'm going back home to Belgium.

White-Crested Helmet Shrike

Freda's garden is always good to find new birds to add to your list and also this morning we found another new one !

Cut-throat Finch. This one is the female

And here is the male Cut-throat Finch and a Blue Waxbill !

Not sure about this one anymore, but I think it was an Ashy Flycatcher.

After breakfast, it was time to load the car and say goodbye to Freda. I wish I didn't have to go home yet...

As we only had to be at Nelspruit airport early afternoon, we could spend another morning in the park. It was a quiet drive but we saw klipspringer again.

Can you see it ?

Maybe now you can ?

On the road to Transport dam we saw a breeding herd of elephants further off in the bush. They were walking in the direction of the dam.

When we arrived at the dam we watched a giraffe drinking and a few minutes later the breeding herd of elephants arrived.

Pretty soon there were elephants everywhere. On our left we had the breeding herd.

and on our right 2 bull elephants arrived for their daily swim.

Watching the elephants swimming was a perfect end to our Kruger adventure which ended much too soon.

At Johannesburg airport Joey and I said goodbye. Joey was staying for a few more weeks in SA to spend some time with her family.

Don't remember much of my flight back home because I slept most of the time and only woke up 1/2 hour before landing in London.

Another short flight to Brussels and I would finally see my cat again.

This has been a wonderful trip.

Thanks Joey for being such good company and also a big thank you to Freda & Malcolm, Janine and Penny & Jurek for your friendship & hospitality.

& to Kruger National Park : I'll be back !!!

We've seen lots of birds on the trip, some we could identify and others we couldn't. Here is the list of the birds we saw and were able to identify (151 birds) :

• Secretary Bird
• Hooded Vulture
• White-backed Vulture
• Lappet-faced Vulture
• Yellow-billed Kite
• Tawny Eagle
• Martial Eagle
• Brown snake-eagle
• Bateleur
• African harrier-hawk
• African scops owl
• Common Ostrich
• Dabchick
• White-breasted Cormorant
• Darter
• Grey Heron
• Black-headed Heron
• Goliath Heron
• Great Egret
• Little Egret
• Cattle Egret
• Green-backed Heron
• Hamerkop
• Black Stork
• Woolly-necked Stork
• Saddle-billed Stork
• Marabou Stork
• Yellowbilled Stork
• Hadeda Ibis
• African Spoonbill
• White-faced Duck
• Egyptian goose
• Spur-winged Goose
• Crested Francolin
• Swainson's spurfowl
• Natal Francolin
• Helmeted Guineafowl
• Black Crake
• Moorhen
• Red-crested Korhaan
• African Jacana
• Kittlitz's Plover
• Three-banded Plover
• Crowned Lapwing
• Senegal Lapwing
• Blacksmith Lapwing
• Whitecrowned Lapwing
• African Wattled Lapwing
• Common Sandpiper
• Black-winged Stilt
• Spotted Thick-knee
• Water Thick-knee
• Temminck’s courser
• Bronze-winged courser
• Double-banded Sangrouse
• Red-eyed Dove
• African Mourning Dove
• Cape Turtle Dove
• Laughing Dove
• Namaqua Dove
• Emerald-spotted Dove
• African Green Pigeon
• Brown-headed Parrot
• Purple-crested Turaco
• Grey go-away bird
• Klaas’s Cuckoo
• African Cuckoo
• Burchell’s Coucal
• Fiery-necked Nightjar
• Little Swift
• African Palm Swift
• Speckled Mousebird
• Narina Trogon
• Pied Kingfisher
• Giant Kingfisher
• Malachite Kingfisher
• Brown-hooded Kingfisher
• European Bee-eater
• Striped Kingfisher
• Grey-hooded Kingfisher
• White-fronted Bee-eater
• Little Bee-eater
• Lilac-breasted Roller
• Purple Roller
• Hoopoe
• Green wood-hoopoe
• Trumpeter Hornbill
• African Grey Hornbill
• Red-billed Hornbill
• Southern Yellowbilled Hornbill
• Southern Ground Hornbill
• Black-collared Barbet
• Crested Barbet
• Golden-tailed Woodpecker
• Cardinal Woodpecker
• Bearded Woodpecker
• Fork-tailed Drongo
• Black-headed Oriole
• Barn Swallow
• Red-breasted Swallow
• Lesser-striped swallow
• Brown-throated Martin
• Pied Crow
• Southern Black Tit
• Arrowmarked Babbler
• Dark-capped Bulbul
• Kurrichane Thrush
• Groundscraper Thrush
• Mocking Cliff-chat
• White-browed Srub-robin
• Yellow-breasted Apalis
• Long-billed Crombec
• Ashy Flycatcher
• Southern black Flycatcher
• Chinspot Batis
• African Pied Wagtail
• Cape Wagtail
• Yellow-throated Longclaw
• Magpie Shrike
• Southern Boubou
• Black-backed Puffback
• Brubru
• Black-crowned Tchagra
• Orange-breasted Bush Shrike
• Grey-headed Bush-shrike
• White-crested Helmet Shrike
• Retz’s Helmet Shrike
• Southern White-crowned shrike
• Wattled Starling
• Violet-backed Starling
• Cape Glossy Starling
• Greater Blue-eared Starling
• Red-winged Starling
• Red-billed Oxpecker
• Marico sunbird
• White-bellied Sunbird
• Scarlet-chested Sunbird
• Red-billed Buffalo Weaver
• House Sparrow
• Southern Greyheaded Sparrow
• Thick-billed Weaver
• Southern Masked Weaver
• Red-billed Quelea
• Green-winged Pytilia
• Red-billed Firefinch
• Blue Waxbill
• Cut-throat Finch
• Pin-tailed whydah
• Village Indigobird
• Yellow-fronted Canary
• Golden-breasted Bunting

Animals seen on this trip : Lesser bushbaby - Vervet monkey - Chacma Baboon - Lion - Leopard - Elephant - Bushbuck - Warthog - Hippo - Wildebeest - Crocodile - Impala - Waterbuck - Nyala - Kudu - Water Monitor - Fruitbat - Giraffe - Zebra - Common Duiker - Steenbok - Buffalo - Spotted Hyaena - White Rhino - White-tailed Mongoose - Black Rhino - Scrub Hare. - Leopard tortoise - Reedbuck - Dwarf Mongoose - Slender Mongoose - Small spotted Genet - Black-backed Jackal - Chameleon - Cheetah - Banded Mongoose - Squirrel - Tree Agama - Plated Lizard - Klipspringer

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