I is for Iridescence, Interesting Insect and Insignificant Impala.
Isn’t it amazing how a bit of sunlight can change an otherwise drab looking bird into an Iridescent Wonder…..
Violet-backed Starling
Green Wood-hoopoe
Diderik’s Cuckoo
Greater Blue-eared Starling
Marico Sunbird
As I have mentioned earlier there were not many insects around ..apart from Tamboti Camp. But I photographed these insects elsewhere and I am not sure what they really are ..anyway they look interesting…can anybody give them a name for me ?
Impalas are not really insignificant at all. As a matter of fact they are quite graceful, beautiful and photogenic animals so I am not quite sure why I only have one photo of these animals …..clearly something else was more significant at the time (probably those Oxpeckers on the Impala’s back )
The ABC of the KNP.
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Beautiful shiny, brilliant birds
And yellow billed oxpeckers
The impalas are insignificant only because there are so many. If they were like the duikers or even kudus, they would not at all be insignificant, but "one of the prettiest antelopes"
I have seen those insects somewhere lately, will try to find them (wasps I think ) The bigger one hanging down is something different.....
And yellow billed oxpeckers
The impalas are insignificant only because there are so many. If they were like the duikers or even kudus, they would not at all be insignificant, but "one of the prettiest antelopes"
I have seen those insects somewhere lately, will try to find them (wasps I think ) The bigger one hanging down is something different.....
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Interesting, Informative, and Ifficient!
Beautiful pics again, MN! But enough birds now!
Where were the yellowbills?
May be a mole cricket type thing under the wasp? Try the ID thread?
Beautiful pics again, MN! But enough birds now!
Where were the yellowbills?
May be a mole cricket type thing under the wasp? Try the ID thread?
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canibale again... these insectes
nice picture
love the details of the Impala... but would be nice to have the yellow-billed Oxpecker... maybe with O
nice picture
love the details of the Impala... but would be nice to have the yellow-billed Oxpecker... maybe with O
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WoW To all your bird shots, Michele,
and what luck you had with the sunbird, wood hoopoes and violet backed startlings, the diderick and even yellow billed oxpeckers
and what luck you had with the sunbird, wood hoopoes and violet backed startlings, the diderick and even yellow billed oxpeckers
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Thx Lisbeth....Yes I think a wasp and a cricket maybeLisbeth wrote:Beautiful shiny, brilliant birds
And yellow billed oxpeckers
The impalas are insignificant only because there are so many. If they were like the duikers or even kudus, they would not at all be insignificant, but "one of the prettiest antelopes"
I have seen those insects somewhere lately, will try to find them (wasps I think ) The bigger one hanging down is something different.....
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More about the Oxpeckers later..will work out where we saw the Yellow-bills...and I have plenty more birds for you...Richprins wrote:Interesting, Informative, and Ifficient!
Beautiful pics again, MN! But enough birds now!
Where were the yellowbills?
May be a mole cricket type thing under the wasp? Try the ID thread?
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J is for Jagermeister.
Well not just Jaegermeister..a bit of Amarula thrown in as well.
This is a Nel Tradition that travels around with us wherever we go. Whenever Doug and I light a fire ( which is every night while in the Bush) we toast to the day's events with a Jaeger. Even though Doug was not in Kruger with us we still had to uphold the tradition…and because we were flying home we had to make sure the bottle was finished at the end of our trip. We didn’t light a fire every night but we certainly had a toast to the day’s events every evening. But try as we might Rob and I could not get Rookie to join in with a Jaeger…but she happily joined in with a Amarula.
So as we were driving around spotting birds etc we would comment as to whether it was the “Jaeger Jaeger" sighting or not. After a while we thought it was a bit unfair to just say "Jaeger Jaeger"…that was totally excluding Rookie and her Amarula….so we changed it to “Ama-JaegerJaeger" !!!!!
We had many wonderful sightings to cheers to each evening but apart from that the AmaJaeger toast is just a lovely opportunity to sit back and savour the day’s happenings and to realise how privileged we are to experience those wonderful sightings.
Needless to say Rob and I did ourselves proud ..there was not one drop left by the end of our stay.
Well not just Jaegermeister..a bit of Amarula thrown in as well.
This is a Nel Tradition that travels around with us wherever we go. Whenever Doug and I light a fire ( which is every night while in the Bush) we toast to the day's events with a Jaeger. Even though Doug was not in Kruger with us we still had to uphold the tradition…and because we were flying home we had to make sure the bottle was finished at the end of our trip. We didn’t light a fire every night but we certainly had a toast to the day’s events every evening. But try as we might Rob and I could not get Rookie to join in with a Jaeger…but she happily joined in with a Amarula.
So as we were driving around spotting birds etc we would comment as to whether it was the “Jaeger Jaeger" sighting or not. After a while we thought it was a bit unfair to just say "Jaeger Jaeger"…that was totally excluding Rookie and her Amarula….so we changed it to “Ama-JaegerJaeger" !!!!!
We had many wonderful sightings to cheers to each evening but apart from that the AmaJaeger toast is just a lovely opportunity to sit back and savour the day’s happenings and to realise how privileged we are to experience those wonderful sightings.
Needless to say Rob and I did ourselves proud ..there was not one drop left by the end of our stay.