Moremi Game Reserve

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Random Photos

Just some photos that haven’t found a place elsewhere.

This is the normal fish eagle sighting in the tree, and its nest to the right.
Cannot get enough of the babies.
The cape buffalo looks like it is squinting or in pain, but really the yellow-billed oxpecker eats the ticks and insects that collect on the buffalo’s hide.  We also saw them on giraffes and hippos – it is a happy coexistence.
The guinea fowl.  We are told it makes a good meal.  Mainly we thought it was a pretty ground bird.
A pair of waddled cranes, not sure you can tell from this photo, but they are over 3 feet tall.
Thick grasses in the savanna
We did find the brothers.  They made a big kill and didn’t come out of the brush for several days while they feasted on it.  Eventually they ventured out for some sun.  This was the less dominant male new to the area.
Gray heron on the hunt.
Note the corkscrew horns – distinctive to the male kudu.  They are very shy and it’s hard to get a good photo.  A member of the antelope family.
Baboons run around all over the place and can be camera shy.  They spend the nights in trees to avoid cheetahs and leopards – the baboon does not have good night vision.
A baby bushbok just outside our tent cabin one morning.
Giraffes are majestic – this is a young one.
A grazing herd of red lechwe.  We saw these all over in Botswana.
Mama and young.  Awwwwwww.
Saddle-Billed Stork.  Very striking.
Notable because every time I try to take a photo of zebras, they turn the other side toward me.  Don’t know why.  It’s as though they are related to my husband.
Another one of the boys, getting a drink.
Sunsets in Botswana were gorgeous.  We usually stopped to get a photo before going back to camp for dinner.

And it was time to leave Botswana – next stop, Victoria Falls in Zambia.

S.