What happens when primates and birds throw a party？

We are watching this baboon tree. Something tranquil and peaceful about watching baboons in the early morning like this when they haven't started making too much noise yet. So it is really chilly, quite cold. I feel like winter has definitely arrived. These baboons are a little bit past their wake-up time. They should be up and about and moving around by now but very reluctant to come down from this tree of theirs. There's a few sitting at the base of the tree grooming themselves and then a couple still sitting up in the tree with tails hanging down. It's quite entertaining to watch these baboons. Bike and I stopped at a lovely baboon tree waiting for the sun to rise to do a nice intro but then we heard news on the radio about Shaka the male lion that had made a kill yesterday. So he killed a kudu. So now we're on a bit of a wild goose chase trying to find this big male lion here on Balfour Fondon named Shaka. I thought I saw some tracks on the road. Unfortunately they were just old hyena tracks but we have found some zebra tracks too. So this substrate is perfect for tracking. The sand, the soil is really soft almost like talcum powder. It leaves the tracks being very clear. We also have nice light this morning so early hours of the morning, late hours of the afternoon, best time for tracking because you get lots of shadows in those tracks. So we have found a very sneaky little vervet monkey up in this tree. The rest of the troop of monkeys are probably somewhere close by maybe feeding on the ground while this guy's up in the tree looking out for danger. Lots of leopard around here. Might make a nice snack out of a little vervet monkey. So we've just come out into this open clearing area. It's called Sesabee Road. Found this lovely open grassland area with two rupus just to our left, another one calling to our right. Rupus have specially designed long thin bills for sticking their bills into the ground feeding on little grubs and worms. Such beautiful little birds. I love the black and white contrast on their wings. How cool. We can also hear, we'll listen out for that rupu that's calling. So we're doing a bit of birding here and we have found a bird party that have all come down to have a swim in this stream that's flowing into the road. Isn't this cool? So we've got a lot of common bulbuls, some cape white-eyes at the back there, all coming down for a nice midday swim. Isn't this an epic sighting? So yeah, besides the common bulbuls, cape white-eyes, what a lovely melodious moment this is. These birds swimming in the road. We've just pulled up in this open area called Fig Tree. Got some rhinos behind us. BK and I are still on a bit of a birding mission today so just enjoying being here, watching these, one of the five just in front of us. We've got some warthogs digging in the grass down there. Got a black-headed golden oriole calling behind me. Some fork-tailed rongos. It's really peaceful, really quiet. Just taking some time to appreciate this reserve. See you on the next safari.