My favorite spiral-horned antelopes: Kudus!
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SPIRALS
WHAT A WEEKEND
Just relaxing before the new week starts!
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IN A HURRY
I took this picture when the Giraffe mum was in a hurry to get to the waterhole and the little one was trying to get a drink at the same time.
And the mother was chewing a bone from a carcass to replenish minerals in her body while she was striding towards the water.
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WINTER EVENING
My Green Mamba at Thanda Safari’s Sulela Dam this evening just as the sun set.
I love winter evenings!
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MUM AND THREE
It was very relaxing watching a Cheetah mum and her three cubs resting on the Thanda Safari savanna as the sun started to set.
I hope you are also having a relaxing weekend!
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The Green Mamba and the Spider
Occasionally a Bark Spider decides to span its web across a road. If I see it in time (before driving through it) I always stop and show this fascinating creature and its ‘hunting tool’ to my guests. Once we had a good look I ‘cut’ the anchor line and the base line of the web.
The spider, now hanging with his web material from one tree only, eats up the remaining silk to preserve the protein for its next night’s web-building.
Nature is amazing!
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THE FIRST PICTURE
This is the first wildlife picture I took yesterday evening from my new Suzuki Jimny. I will call this small but rugged 4×4 the ‘Little Mamba’ and I will will use it when doing wildlife photo work by myself (all over South Africa).
My ‘Green Mamba’ (a specially converted 2002 Land Rover Defender) will still be used for photo safaris with guests on Thanda Safari and also from time to time on Pakamisa.
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NIGHT DRIVES
As a wildlife photographer most of my subjects present themselves at daylight or in the crepuscular hours and the night is therefore not my favorite photo time.
But as a field guide I enjoy the reaction of my guests to the excitement of a night drive under the African star-light sky with sightings of Owls, Nightjars, Thick-knees, Coursers and other non-feathered night creatures.
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Happy Mother’s Day
… to my mum and all the mothers around the world!
THAT IS NOT THE WAY YOU HOLD ON TO A LADY!
After a few days of mating the Lion female had enough and wanted to go off hunting. But here mate tried to hold on 😊
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