12 NIGHTS AND 13 DAYS:

JULY 14th to JULY 26th 2008

Collect from JHB airport depart from HOEDSPRUIT airport

1 Night African Birds of Prey
6 Nights Kruger National Park
3 Nights Tshukudu Lodge, Big Cats Reserve
2 Nights Forest Lodge


DISTANCE TRAVELLED IN THE KRUGER NATIONAL PARK :: 1058 KM

DAY 1 :: Monday – 14th July 2008 Arrive JHB Airport PM Birds of Prey photo shoot- Overnight Hippo Hollow

Photographing the Jackal Buzzard

Jackal Buzzard

Jackal Buzzard

Cape Eagle Owl

Verreaux's Eagle

Tawny Eagle

DAY 2 :: Tuesday– 15th July 2008 First full day in Kruger National Park - Overnight Skukuza Camp

Klipspringer on rocks near Pretoriuskop

Male Kudu

Baboons in acacia tree

Glossy Starling

Male Kudu with Ox Peckers

White Rhino Bull on the Nwatimihri Road

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DAY 3 :: Wednesday – 16th July 2008 Second full day in Kruger National Park - Overnight Skukuza Camp

Female Giraffe

Elephant with uprooted tree

Blue Wildebeest

Impala at Transport dam

Thirsty elephant on their way to water

Male Waterbuck near Skukuza Camp

Yellow Billed Hornbill

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DAY 4 :: Thursday – 16th July 2008 Third full day in Kruger National Park - Overnight Lower Sabie Camp

Grey Heron at Lake Panic

Giant Kingfisher

African Darter

Elephant drinking, photographed from the bird hide

African Darter with fish

Male Impala fighting

Giraffe feeding

Female Nyala

Green (Redbilled) Woodhoopoes

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DAY 5 :: Friday – 17th July 2008 Fourth full day in Kruger National Park - Overnight Lower Sabie Camp

Cheetah mum with her 4 cubs near Lower Sabie

Male Baboon yawn

Young Hippo running into the water

Baboon hands

Young Baboon playing with branch

Open Billed Storks

White Rhino

Burchell's Zebra

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DAY 6 :: Saturday – 18th July 2008 Fifth full day in Kruger National Park - Overnight Satara Camp

Hippo at Sunset Dam

Goliath Heron in the Sabie River

Giant Kingfisher - Lower Sabie bridge

Warthog

Cheetah with 3 cubs

Male Steenbok Antelope

Hippo with young baby

Serrated Hinged Terrapins - Sweni River

Hammerkop

Male Bushbuck with Redbilled Oxpeckers

Zebra movement

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DAY 7 :: Sunday – 19th July 2008 Sixth full day in Kruger National Park - Overnight Satara Camp

Lioness and cub with Wildebeest Kill near Satara Camp

Lioness burying evidence of her kill

Lioness with Wildebeest

Black Backed Jackal trying to sneak in for scraps

Zebra and Impala at Nsemani Dam

Arrow Marked Babbler at our lunch stop

Scimitar Billed Woodhoopoe

Giraffe at Nsemani Dam near Satara Camp

El;ephant and Lions at Nsemani Dam

Steenbok jumping

Kori Bustard near Satara Camp

One of 11 Lions on the S100 road near Satara Camp

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DAY 8 :: Monday– 20th July 2008 half day in Kruger National Park, transfer to private big cat reserve Overnight Big Cats Resreve

Sunrise on the way to Sweni River

Lioness beginning her stalk towards Wildebeest

Male Buffalo

Zebra drinking

Burchell's Starling

Elephant feeding

The Leopard that crossed the road in front of us dragging her fresh Impala kill Photo courtesy - Mike Needham

The elephant in the Big Cat Reserve with the injured leg, being checked by the vet

Lion cub at the Big Cat Reserve Photo courtesy - Mike Needham

African Wilddog - Big Cat Reserve Photo courtesy - Mike Needham

Porcupine quills - porcupine night feed, Big Cat Reserve

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DAY 9 :: Tuesday– 21st July 2008 Overnight Private Big Cats Reserve

Orphaned male Leopard - Jabula

Photographing Jabula

Young White Rhino

Crocodile - wide angle with remote trigger

White Rhino watching us photograph the crocodile

Young Leopard

Cheetah approaching us

Male Cheetah

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DAY 10 :: Wednesday– 22nd July 2008 - Overnight Private Big Cats Reserve

Young Male Lion cub

Hooded vulture

Cape Griffon Vultures on the elephant carcass

White Rhino - wide angle with remote trigger

female Buffalo drinking

African Wilddog

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DAY 11 :: Thursday– 23rd July 2008 AM - Big Cat Reserve, PM Vulture Photo Shoot, Overnight Forest Lodge

Young Caracal

Heuglin's Robin - Forest Lodge

Black Eyed Bulbul photographed from the hide

Two White Backed Vultures squabbling over the same perch

Cape Groffon Vulture at the Wild Vulture feed

Young female Nyala at the Forest Lodge Hide

Male Nyala photographed from the hide

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DAY 12 :: Friday – 24th July 2008 Full Day Reptile Photography - Overnight FOREST LODGE

Vine Snake - Reptile Park

Flap Necked Chameleon

Flap Necked Chameleon

Flap Necked Chameleon - feeding Photo courtesy - Mike Needham

Puff Adder

Green Mamba

Snouted Cobra

Snouted Cobra - wide angle with remote trigger

Photographing the Black Mamba

Black Mamba

DAY 13 :: Saturday – 26th July 2008 Depart from Hoedspruit Airport

Black Eyed Bulbul - Forest Lodge Hide

Black Collared Barbet

Black Headed Oriole

Black Eyed Bulbul

Blue Grey Flycatcher

Thickbilled Weaver

Heuglin's Robin

Red billed Fire Finch

Dusky Flycatcher

Male Nyala