Giraffe are always fascinating to watch. Usually they are sedate and they spend a lot of time browsing leaves to provide nutrition for their enormous bodies. Recently at Kruger National Park we saw giraffes galloping away from an apparent threat, and later a giraffe nearly trod on a ground-roosting nightjar that otherwise we would have overlooked.
Continue reading “From tall giraffes to a ground-dwelling nightjar”
A pair of double-banded sandgrouse join me in a message for 2022.
Continue reading “Looking forward”
Few words this week as I share a small selection of photos using the zoom lens for a slightly closer look. All these photos were taken on our recent trip to Kruger National Park.
Continue reading “Zooming in: Kruger Park pics for Christmas”
Mopani trees with their butterfly-shaped leaves and variable growth habits are beautiful to look at, and being hardy and nutritious too they support an abundance of life in hot, dry and low-lying areas, such as in the northern sections of Kruger National Park.
Continue reading “Life in the mopane scrub and woodlands at Kruger National Park”
And so we are back from our stay in Kruger National Park, which offered us much in the way of rest and reflection. Here is the first in what is likely to be a short series of posts on observations that captured both my camera lens and my attention.
Continue reading “Companionable creatures at Kruger Park”
I don’t see tambourine doves in the garden as much as I used to and in any event they are shy and skittish, so the other day when I looked out of the window and saw a tambourine dove foraging on the ground I fetched my camera.
Continue reading “An unusually confiding tambourine dove”
The sombre greenbuls that visit our garden all year round are mostly evident from their loud and penetrating contact calls as they forage while concealed in dense vegetation or high up within the tree canopies.
Continue reading “Sombre greenbuls can be loud and splashy too”
It was spring equinox this week, inspiring this collection of spring sightings in the garden to bring a cheering lightness to lift our spirits.
Continue reading “Spring in my step: Some of the joys of the season”
Being spring here in South Africa, many creatures have already been a-courting and are turning to nest building or are in the process of brooding their young.
Continue reading “Springtime nesting: Black sparrowhawks beyond the bottom of our garden”