The weather was variable in the week we visited Kruger at the end of February this year. It was overcast and raining for periods on most days and very windy on some days. Both mammals and birds do not like the windy conditions because it disrupts the hearing and smelling senses making them more vulnerable…

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01.06.2024

Chobe River’s low water level | Howie's Wildlife Images

Helen and I travelled to Chobe River with CNP Safaris in March this year. That time of the year is fondly called ”the Jacana season” because African Jacanas were normally in the midst of their breeding season. This was the time when wildlife photographers would be able to see and photograph Jacana chicks with their…

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08.06.2024

Chobe – Elephant Valley | Howie's Wildlife Images

About ten to eleven kilometres up river from Kasane on Botswana's northern border with Namibia flows the Chobe River on its way from Angola to meet the Zambezi at Kazungula. A favourite place to watch wildlife come down to drink water along the river is the Kalwisi Nkanga viewpoint which we fondly referred to as…

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22.06.2024

Chobe – Avian fishermen | Howie's Wildlife Images

This post shows a small selection of the piscivorous (fish eating) birds that you can see travelling up the Chobe River along Botswana's northern border with Namibia. The Chobe River is perennial and flows past the main town Kasane on its way to join the mighty Zambezi River at Kazungula. The level of the Chobe…

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