Saturday, March 14, 2009

Some Animal Pictures from KNP

During a 3 day trip in the KNP I usually take 200-500 photos. This time it was about 300. I have seen the "Big Five" several times. This time four of them, missing the leopard.



This picture shows one of the smallest elephant babies that I have seen! Very playful and extremely cute with its short trunk.











I saw 7 rhinos during the first day. They are quite impressive!













I saw a lot of beautiful birds, some of which I haven't seen before. However this African Fish Eagle overlooking the Sabie River is a very nice bird that I have seen many times.





















Portrait of a crocodile in the Sunset Pool, just outside Lower Sabie Restcamp.










This Goose Hawk was posing for me on a gravel road.













When you see a lot of vultures like this, there is usually some predators having a feast nearby. I couldn't see it, so I just took some pictures of the waiting guests.











This beautiful bird is a Carmine Bee-eater. They are summer visitors in South Africa.













A Purple Heron posing for me!






















These are Klipspringers, one of my favorite antelope. They are actually walking on their toe-nails and are always on top of some rocks. We have a few of them just outside our home in the Nelspruit Nature Reserve as well.










This is the quite common Purple Roller, with its wonderful colors. It does not have the lilac breast found in the Lilac Breasted Roller.


There are 100's of my KNP pictures at:
http://travel.webshots.com/album/560986454EnJrWA

4 comments:

Anneli said...

Very nice! The rhinos are really impressive, wish that we had seen some like that the time we went there! The text is a bit misplaced sometimes but I figure out wich text is for what picture...

tommy said...

If you adjust the window size (not full screen), everything will jump into the intended place!

Mairas matte said...

Vad har du för kamera? Otroligt fina bilder.

tommy said...

Canon EOS 40D med litet olika objektiv, bl.a. ett härligt tele-zoom 100-400mm. Fler djurbilder på http://community.webshots.com/user/tommy_javerfalk/