 Bumi Hills Safari Lodge at Lake Kariba |
 View of Lake Kariba from our tent (4 shot pano) |
 Brown-necked parrot |
 Blacksmith lapwing |
 Little bee-eater |
 Banded martin |
 Pair of Egyptian geese |
 The black heron or umbrella bird |
 Umbrella bird fishing |
 Elephant with cattle egret at Lake Kariba |
 Secretary bird marching across the plain |
 Secretary bird accelerating for liftoff! |
 Sunrise on Lake Kariba |
 Leigh captures Tom capturing the sunrise |
 Red-billed hornbill |
 Goliath heron |
 White-crowned lapwing |
 Pied kingfisher hovering about 30' up. |
 Kingfisher hits the water ... |
 ... and comes up empty-billed. |
 Back to fishing again |
 Glossy ibis |
 Even the hippos got into the mating scene |
 African spoonbill |
 African sacred ibis |
 Black-winged stilts kissing |
 White-backed vultures with a lappet-faced vulture |
 Young zebra |
 Vervet monkey waiting to steal some dinner |
 Two porcupines drinking from a pool at night near the lodge. Lit by a cellphone flashlight. |
 African fish-eagle |
 The fish-eagle takes flight |
 Kudu keeping watch at the lake. |
 Gray heron and great egret |
 Great egret |
 Sundowner at the cormorant rookery |
 Baobab - the quintessential African tree |
 Harris, our knowledgeable local guide at Bumi Hills |
 Warthog - winner of the ugliest animal contest |
 Saddle-billed stork |
 Lioness leading her two cubs |
 The second cub was reluctant to follow across the creek. |
 He gathered his nerves ... |
 ... and didn't quite make it. |
 Egyptian goose on the way home for the evening. |
 King of the (termite) mountain |
 Fork-tailed drongo harasses an African hawk-eagle |
 Hawk-eagle soaring |
 African hawk-eagle headed at us |
 Leigh, Harris, Katy and Tom enjoy a "bush lunch" with Lawrence, our server |
 Great egret in flight |
 Striated heron |
 Stealth fighter. Juvenile harrier-hawk flying low. |
 Juvenile harrier-hawk |
 The harrier-hawk in flight |
 Emerald-spotted dove |
 Collared pratincole |
 A stork joins us for our last sundowner |
 On the four-seater Cessna headed back to Vic Falls and the flight home |
 Last view of Bumi Hills as we leave |