Bush Office :-)

I took this picture of a Brown-hooded Kingfisher while I was sitting at the desk in my new “South African Bush Office”.

The room is quite spacious for all the computer and photography gear I brought with me and all my the stuff that will arrive by sea freight sometime in July.

Below are also pictures of the outside of Thanda House and of my office.

Evening Bird Songs at Thanda Lodge

In my blog message on Friday I mentioned various birds around my Thanda Lodge room.

Here are four pictures I took that evening sitting by the small pool on my porch.

They are Pied Crows (top left), a White-brown Scrub Robin (top right), a Green-winged Pytilia (bottom left) and a Yellow-bellied Greenbul (bottom right). I hope I identified them correctly (I am still a bit shaky when it comes to birds 🙂

Good night from South Africa!

A Room with a View …

Yesterday and today I moved all my stuff into Thanda House. The office is still a “work in process”, but here are a view pictures of my room at the house.

It is certainly a room with a view. The picture with the Giraffe and my car was taken from my front door 🙂

More to come …

PS: The Journey of Giraffe was made up of 18 animals – adults and youngsters!

At Thanda at last …

Today is a very happy day for me 🙂

After many years of planning to work in South Africa I have arrived at Thanda Private Game Reserve and I am enjoying a beautiful winters evening at the Thanda Lodge. I got a very warm welcome from staff members – many still knew me from my previous visits.

Tomorrow I will move into my room and my office at Thanda House.

This is a picture of the view from the porch of guest room No.9 at the Thanda Lodge (where I am typing this blog message right now).

The only sounds I can hear are the birds around the place – heavenly 🙂