Thursday 30 November cam pics ......

0305 hrs

Burchell's Zebra - not such good pics they were leaving when I got here :cry:

thos zebras took off fast.

6.05 am Egyp & Tian doing their thing.

this pic follows Ingwe's

Great one Sparrow!!

6.37 am this bird was flying over the water and feeding. What is it??? Looked bigger than swallow

6.52 am ?stilt? (bobbing) *edit=Wood Sandpiper-Tringa glareola, Thanks Fani



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This shot reminds me of Bambi:

7.04 Impala

8.38 am Vultures *edit=Lappet-faced Vulture-Aegypius tracheliotus AND White-backed Vulture-Gyps africanus. Thank you Katja & Fani

left: Lappet-faced right: White-backed

Vultures having a feast:

2 vultures "fighting" over the snack

9.04 am Pied Crow calling

9.09 am Vulture sunbathing

This is the end...I came to see the last one leaving

Thank you Meaghan & Fani for the pics of the Vultures in flight!

Seen at 9:52

Some kind of locust/cricket?

grasshopper 9:53am

''Most abundant of the six species occurring in the (Kruger) Park is the White-backed Vulture (Gyps africanus).
Largest is the Lappet-faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotus) ......''

I think these are the two species are visible at pics...

About the Tringa, Sparrow saved earlier...on the pic looks like Tringa glareola (Wood Sandpiper)...but those Tringa sp looks totaly deferent at pics than when you see them moving or at nature...

Thanks Fani. You just confirmed the Vultures (Katja thought of the same species).
About the sandpiper, Cactus posted on the sightings-thread Common Sandpiper. :shock: All I know is I've seen this Sandpiper more often at the cam.
I'll edit both pic-posts!

Sparrow ...I;m not sure about the Tringa...I dont think it is a Common sandpiper...but maybe it is a Tringa nebularia (Greenshank) ...the bill looks at pics short and rather thick ...but I know very well that at pics it isn't easy to see such details well....Only if you can estimate the size ...then it is easier...as Greenshank is larger than wood sandpiper

pied crow at 11.17am....crow crow crow !!!!

vervet monkey at 11.57am

I think fani is quite right...this is the wood sandpiper...see the very scaly/mottled pattern on the wings. The common sandpiper is mostly pain looking. In the very poor resolution i get while streaming i could not make out the scaly pattern on the wings which is more evident in the photos. The legs dont look greenish to me...in addition the greenshank has a lot of white on the face - which this doesnt. So woodsandpiper comes closest. Thanks fani for the ID...

and also to those who captured the shots for the really good pics.