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-- Relocating, fires, loss and renewal Candelabra lilies blazing crimson flowers after the fires South Africa’s blue cranes in the croplands of the Overberg Fire lines: Weeks of wildfires in the Overstrand Fine feathers for the festive season in an Overberg garden Springtime in the Overberg, Part 2: Feathers, farmlands and flowers Springtime in the Overberg: Some fynbos flowers (and shaggy monkey beetles) The pretty and pugnacious pin-tailed whydah Exploring Platbos – Africa’s southernmost forest A mountain walk and baboons climbing at Phillipskop Mountain Reserve Cape sugarbird: Summer visitors to our garden Pelargonium flower portraits and a geranium too The Bateleur Eagle – South African Bird of the Year 2024 Tankwa Karoo Part 2: Plants and birds and rocks and things Tankwa Road Trip: Farmyard Animals and some history Reframing flowers in the Fynbos Biome Balloon milkweeds hosting butterflies Bird visitors brightening our garden in the Overberg Day trip to De Hoop Nature Reserve in the Overberg Shelter from the storm: Two fledgling doves survive soaking rains Over in the Overberg A wild angulate tortoise foraging dandelions in our garden A Cape sparrow feeding a juvenile diderick cuckoo After cataracts, storms and floods, I’m back … Sea views with gulls Flowers defying a wet and windy winter Along the Wandelpad Ch-ch-ch-changes Settling in and some incidental bird watching On living harmoniously with vervet monkeys To pastures new Festive holiday pompons Random quirkiness in the garden As I look out my window: Vervet monkeys at rest and play on a cool summer morning Letting nature show and tell Southern equinox after springtime September rains Highlighting some of our garden birds A road trip, Rory the Ridgeback and his recovery Masters of disguise: Praying mantis roundup Suburban wildlife in the autumn-winter garden Some old postcards depicting nature and the outdoors Cabbage-trees – a virtual and literal feast in the garden Following footpaths in the central Drakensberg African elephants, bark stripping, nutrition and trees The African baobab: Super tree with super fruit Subtropical depression: Catastrophic flooding in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape My camera and eye: Strange fascination Pets and war: Ernesto’s Sanctuary for Cats in Syria Take me to the river: Riverine roaming at Kruger National Park From tall giraffes to a ground-dwelling nightjar Summertime mountain flowers Scrutinized by buffalos at the Kruger National Park Abstract photos from Kruger National Park Three dwarf antelope: Steenbok, Sharpe’s grysbok and klipspringer Looking forward Zooming in: Kruger Park pics for Christmas Life in the mopane scrub and woodlands at Kruger National Park Companionable creatures at Kruger Park Home and away: From near to far A family of yellow mongooses The wild Honeysuckle-tree flowering abundantly Watching spiny flower mantids grow An unusually confiding tambourine dove Floral treats in the spring garden Black cuckooshrike – named for the unicoloured male, this is the female Logging on again First flowering of an Aloe ferox Elephant rumbles Just saying hi! Paying tribute to elephants The secretarybird and the rising sun Like a rainbow Wordless in the aftermath: KwaZulu-Natal July 2021 What may emerge from the ashes of destruction? Fungilorious: Four trees hosting fabulous fungi Mushrooms and toadstools in our garden Winter solstice birds in the garden Sombre greenbuls can be loud and splashy too Enchantment in a monochrome woodland More on our wild irises: The yellow and the forest wild irises Introducing three wild irises Meanwhile back in the garden: Images of early winter Journeying from freshwater pans to garden pond Going with the flow: Some southern African rivers and wetlands Looking out to sea: The shoreline, the estuaries and the coral reefs Restoring our planet: Showcasing South Africa’s biomes Here’s looking at you: Some special encounters with African wildlife Tiny spiny flower mantid nymphs hunting in autumn flowers Flower picks from the garden Seasons change: Reflections after the equinox Serendipity, scrutiny and surprises in the garden Butterflies of the Great Thirstland Befriending solitary bees Naturebackin went to Greece: Part 1 Sparti and Mystras Caught on camera: Birds in the suburbs Ring-necked doves, Namaqua doves and a lanner falcon on the hunt Singing cicadas seen at last Southern tree agama ambush hunting and eating ants Phoning home: Lockdown nature photos on my phone Lockdown walking in the woodland, or rather plantation
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