We had a very successful first bird ringing day of the 3rd Thanda Safari Birding Weekend. 53 birds (15 species) were ringed and our guests enjoyed releasing them back into the wild. And we even got a new species for our bird list: The Green Twinspot. For tomorrow the nets are set up in the Thanda savanna area. More pictures to follow soon…
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My tracker Bheki is watching James finishing the net setup for tomorrow’s ‘bird ringing’ at Thanda Safari. All of our guests will enjoy seeing the birds close up and release them back into the wild after the birds been ringed (with information for research projects at Captetown University). More pictures to come …
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From time to time a game drive can have a difficult start if one of Thanda’s Elephant villa decides to have a snack in the driveway to the Lodge. But our guests enjoyed observing this gentle giant for a quite a while.
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… from a young male Elephant using a branch broken off a tree 😊
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LITTLE LIONS are one of my favorite photography subjects. These two did a synchronized walk for my photo shoot 😊
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An Elephant’s trunk contains over 40,000 muscles. A human body contains a mere 639 muscles!
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The last bird ringing with James Rawdon was a big success so we are repeating the exercise from 25 to 27 June.
… and I will be around to take bird and ‘guest with bird’ pictures, and help with bird photography questions.
Don’t miss this weekend and get up close and personal with our birds 😊
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My favorite spiral-horned antelopes: Kudus!
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Just relaxing before the new week starts!
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