Botswana
My wife and I spent a week on a mammal/bird safari travelling around the Okavango Delta. It was a wonderful experience which gave us terrific photographic opportunities. Our closeness to the mammals and birds was unbelievable ------ particularly with Lions and Leopards. At one place we were in the midst of about 350 elephants.

A Raptor at evening

Lilac-breasted Roller

Spotted Hyaena with young

Leopard on watch

Leopard fully alert

Leopard watching intently

Pel's Fishing Owl

African Darter

Lion with Kill (Giraffe)

Leopard watching

Leopard patiently waiting

Leopard Cub

Pale Chanting Goshawk

Grey Go-Away-Bird

Saddle-billed Stork

Lioness feeding cubs

Lioness with cubs

African Fish Eagle

Verreaux's Eagle-owl

Tawny Eagle

Hippo

Hippo surfacing

Hippopotamus at night

Three Friends!!

Kori Bustard

Goliath Heron

Yellow-billed Stork

Young Elephant with short trunk

Elephant having fun

Junior leading the way!

Elephants having a "wrestle"

Elephant having a drink

Bearded Woodpecker

Bennett's Woodpecker

Bennett's Woodpecker

Lion with Kudu kill (scarred right eye but eye OK)

Scarred Lion moving Kudu (probably closer to water as many "observers" would take some Kudu if the Lion leaves it)

Greater Kudu. A popular meal for a lion

Coppery-tailed Coucal (lays eggs in other bird's nests)

Southern (African) Ground Hornbill

Yellow-billed Hornbill

Yellow-billed Hornbill

Impalas

Leaping Impala

Red Lechwe

Giraffe having a drink

Southern Carmine Bee-eaters

Southern Carmine Bee-eater

Meyer's Parrot

White-backed Vulture

Hyaena feeding pups.The cub at the back is not hers but she will feed it. However her bigger cubs keep it away!

Male and female Warthogs

A family of Warthogs on the trot

Spotted Hyaena

Black-shouldered Kite

Pied Kingfisher

Lilac-breasted Roller

Kurrichane Thrush

White-browed Sparrow-weaver

Arnot's Chat

Rattling Cisticola

Red-billed Spurfowl

Crocodile

Crocodile

Side-striped Jackal

Wild Dogs eating their kill

This Impala was chased by a wild dog and jumped into the water to escape.Crocodiles were about but the Impala wouldn't leave the reeds. It was still sheltering when we left.

Wattled Crane

Juvenile Gabar Goshawk

Goliath Heron
