As I drove back home after a photo lesson this afternoon this beautiful scenery presented itself. A Giraffe family in the foreground and the Lebombo mountains as a backdrop in beautiful winter light. Thanda at its best!
Enjoy your weekend!
PS: The pictures were taken with my iPhone.
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Eugene, a good friend of mine is member of a music band called ROOT. He is currently producing a series of short videos featuring tracks from ROOT’s album ‘Under the Marula Tree’.
The music is composed to symbolize African nature icons (eg sunrises, Lions, Elephants, …). This very special album is available on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Deezer for streaming and download! https://root.hearnow.com/
I gave ROOT permission to use my pictures and videos clips – mostly taken at Thanda Safari – to create music videos.
I really like the first result. And more are in production! Enjoy this African Sunrise 😊
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No words needed 😊
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Sometimes it is better to be very quiet and to make not a move. A herd of Cape Buffalo had chased a pride of Lions around and this Lioness went straight up into a tree. The Buffalo could still smell her but not see her.
The herd spent hours around the area and the Lions had to wait in the trees until the Buffalo had departed!
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What a beautiful example for the special light during the golden hour. I took this picture yesterday evening just a few minutes before the sun was setting.
Enjoy your day!
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This is a speedy one minute Thanda Safari with a herd of Wildebeest on the way to having a drink at a waterhole.
Have a good evening 😊
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It was a long time ago when I took this picture of 15 cute Wild Dog puppies. Whenever we tracked Wild Dogs in the past we could smell them before we could hear them or see them. They are cute, but very smelly 😊
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Most of my posts are about mammals and birds regularly seen on Thanda Safari, my home and work place for the last eight years. But today’s post is about some of my rarer pictures taken over the last 20 years in Southern Africa. Can you ID them and can you tell which two of these five mammals occur on Thanda, even if they are seen very rarely ?
Let’s see who gets it right 😊
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Most of my carnivores pictures are of Lions, Cheetahs and the occasional Leopards. Hyenas and Jackals also often featured in my posts.
But there are many more little hunters on Thanda. This is a picture of the smallest member of the order carnivoria, a Slender Mongoose, which one usually only sees sprinting across the road. This one stayed a bit for a photo shoot.
Have a good evening 😊
And in case you are interested this is a list of all 16 carnivore species on the reserve:
Order: Carnivoria
1 African Lion
2 Leopard
3 Spotted Hyena
4 Cheetah
5 Brown Hyena
6 Caracal
7 Serval
8 Honey Badger
9 Black-backet Jackal
10 Side-striped Jackal
11 White-tailed Mongoose
12 Water (Marsh) Mongoose
13 South-African Large Spotted Genet
14 Banded Mongoose
15 Striped Polecat (Zorilla)
16 Slender Mongoose
Have a good evening!
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Let’s make this Elephant week with my fourth Ellie post.
Today this bull calmly crossed the road right in front of me. I love to be close to these impressive creatures. As he approached I backed up a bit and made space for him to cross without changing his direction. He gave me a ‘smell’ with his trunk and a good look before he crossed.
Have a good weekend!
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