Tag Archives: Wildlife

More Palmiet Privilege

  • some emperor moth from nearby Cowies Hill
    some emperor moth from nearby Cowies Hill
  • Wahlberg's Emperor
    Wahlberg’s Emperor
  • unknown Louis
    unknown Louis
  • Warren's a midwife
    Warren’s a midwife
  • Suncana misses v little
    Suncana misses v little
  • Rory saw the Crowned eagle soaring against a cloudy sky
    Rory saw the Crowned eagle soaring against a cloudy sky
  • Rory saw Familiar Chats feeding babies
    Rory’s Familiar Chats feeding babies
  • Roger in the rain
    Roger in . .
  • . . the rain
    . . the rain
  • Nick's
    Nick’s
  • nightime walk
    nightime walk
  • nocturnal
    nocturnal
  • nunus
    nunus
  • A Craibia zimmermannii from north of here
    A Craibia zimmermannii from north of here
  • is flowering merrily - 'sand peawood'
    is flowering merrily – ‘sand peawood’

Spring has sprung.

(iNaturalist ID’d the first moth as one of the Giant Silkworm Moths Subfamily Saturniinae)

~~~oo0oo~~~

Forgot to include this. Suncana Bradley’s earlier pic of a female Black Cuckooshrike flying towards her. Unusual, striking.

Welcome Visitors! Daily and Occasional

Tea on the patio was a pantomime with five vervet youngsters playing tag and hide-and-seek in my meadow using branches, the birdbath and the semi-engulfed garden bench as their staging posts.

Then as they left, two banded mongooses arrived:

and the White Pear showed up nicely. Apodytes dimidiata Trish got from Geoff Caruth’s Geoff’s Jungle

Zululand Zilwaans!

izilwane – (wild) animal/s. Phinda game reserve started as Phinda Izilwane – ‘the return of the wild animals.’ We’ve been missing our monthly jaunts up to Zululand in this COVID lockdown time. Jessie asked yesterday ‘Dad, when can we go to Mfolosi again?’

One consolation: I have been added to the whatsapp groups that share sightings in Mkhuze and in Hluhluwe-Mfolosi reserves. Now the reserves are closed they’re sharing past pictures. Beautiful.

– whatsapp groups of Zululand reserves – pics over the years –

And I sent in some of mine taken over the years

– some pics I have taken in Hluhuwe, Mfolosi and Mkhuze reserves over time –

~~~oo0oo~~~

Mkhuze Peach needs a Balaclava

Later we go on a night game drive in an open vehicle with Patrick, ‘our’ Mkhuze Ezemvelo Ranger. The three of us and a family of four from Durban. On the drive I realise that of the eight people on the vehicle I am the only one reflecting an excessive amount of moonlight from my ‘peachy’ face. Probably scaring the animals.

I’ll have to get meself a balaclava.

Image

Oxpecker collage
Oxpecker collage