Taking a Sand Bath by Meisiekind

Photography • Animals • posted on Nov 25, 2013

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Here is Ms Ostrich taking a lovely sand bath. It was fascinating to watch her and she was soon joined by two others. They were eventually covered in s dust cloud. They apparently do it to get rid of unwanted parasites. Taken in the Kgalagadi on my recent trip. Thank you for popping in and for your very welcome comments and favs on my last upload "Traffic Jam". Carin xx

Comments (23)

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durleybeachbum

1:08PM | Mon, 25 November 2013

What great fun it must have been to see them!

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Adobe_One_Kenobi

1:11PM | Mon, 25 November 2013

What a cool capture Carin :)

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snowcrow1

1:11PM | Mon, 25 November 2013

Fabulous capture!!

BorisB

1:46PM | Mon, 25 November 2013

Really an impressive capture!!

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aksirp

1:47PM | Mon, 25 November 2013

oh, how wonderful dusty!

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emmecielle

2:57PM | Mon, 25 November 2013

Very interesting image! Excellent capture! :)

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Rob2753

3:12PM | Mon, 25 November 2013

You can see clearly the rising dust, wonderful Carin !

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jayfar

3:37PM | Mon, 25 November 2013

Super image Carin and the first time I've seen them doing this.

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ratfugel

4:15PM | Mon, 25 November 2013

Right place, right time Carin. Excellently captured shot. You seem to know your business! ( Tip: Let your viewers give you ratings, I'm sure they will surprise you). rat.

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helanker

4:28PM | Mon, 25 November 2013

OH, it wasnt YOU taking a sandbath... oh well, these are lovely too HAHA ! Wonderful shot. !

ronmolina

6:27PM | Mon, 25 November 2013

Splendid shot!

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Faemike55

10:48PM | Mon, 25 November 2013

now we know where the meaning of True Grit comes from Great capture Carin

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auntietk

11:38PM | Mon, 25 November 2013

I've seen some of our little birdies doing this, but not on this scale!! Wonderful capture, Dierbaar. You must be beside yourself with all these fantastic shots you got there!

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wysiwig

11:55PM | Mon, 25 November 2013

When my siblings and I were children we would have been happy beyond measure to be able to take a "bath" by rolling around in the dirt. A wonderful capture of these truly odd creatures.

whaleman

2:36AM | Tue, 26 November 2013

Cool shot! Bison do this as well and for the same reasons.

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