Monday 4 November 2013

Snake Eagle series

Sometimes you get lucky with a series of pictures. I enjoyed this young Snake Eagle at the Polentswa Water hole in the Kgalagadi.

It first flew in the direction of my car and landed on a tree trunk not far away.



 I managed to catch two different landing poses!




Checking me out - and deciding that I am no real danger to its actual plan ...





It suddenly flew up again...



...back in the direction it came from, 



...but now aiming for the water hole...




My camera's outofocus managed to stay sharp as it landed...



 ...and gave me another two landing poses!




After a successful drink session, the bird decided it is time to go




It went up into the air and flew over me giving me the opportunity to get a nice in-flight shot as well




Polentswa Water hole can treat one well with not only big animals like Lion, Hyena, Leopard, and various buck species, but also a great variety of birds like these.