South Africa, Deeper into Kruger

The African Open-billed Stork looks so drab it's almost funerial. The Asian Open-billed Stork is cheery by comparision, with it's brighter plummage.

This is one of the oddest raptors, a Secretary Bird pants in the heat. I was very thankful that our rental car had air conditioning.

Easily one of the highlights of the trip was being able to observe a mother Leopard with her cub resting in the grass.

Kruger has a wealth of raptors. This is a Wahlberg's Eagle.

Yellow-billed Kites were the most common raptors everywhere we went. This one perches on the rail of a bridge as it pauses in it's efforts to snatch swallows, and swifts nesting under the bridge.

We only saw one of these raptors, an African Little Sparrowhawk.

 This is a winter visitor to Africa. A European Roller.

A female Cardinal Woodpecker in a fig tree.

Ostriches are always a welcome sight.

Here are Spotted Hyenas that dug their den right under the road. This is a half-grown youngster.