Africa Wild

Beautiful sunrise shot

Hyena at first light can be a mission to photograph

Anti poaching patrol

I like the tsessebe pic

Toko wrote:BluTuna, we do appreciate lousy photos, too (not saying that this IS lousy )

Toko in 'poor light' available?

I'd rather post pictures that aren't lousy

I have a couple more Tokos to post but not in poor light. Did you miss the one with the interesting lunch a couple of pages back?

Lisbeth wrote:They are getting scarse

Not sure about that, I recall that they were extremely scarce in the late 1990s probably due to the major drought we had a few years previously. We usually see Tsessebe north of Letaba.

Bushcraft wrote:Beautiful sunrise shot

Hyena at first light can be a mission to photograph

Anti poaching patrol

I like the tsessebe pic

Thanks BC

BluTuna wrote: I have a couple more Tokos to post but not in poor light. Did you miss the one with the interesting lunch a couple of pages back?

No, have seen it, it's a very nice Toko and good photos. But I am very sorry to see the centipede gowing down for a meal

Day 4 continued.

Back at Tsendze a Common Sailer Butterfly (Neptis laeta).


After breakfast we were interrupted by some Arrowmarked Babblers...


That had a parasite in tow.


They were rearing the Striped Cuckoo chick from hell!





A couple of twitchers had persuaded Rodgers to let them visit the camp. When I beckoned them over to show them the Cuckoo and Babblers they were so excited they were visibly shaking! They kept telling me that I was so fortunate to be staying at Tsendze - which I was, of course!

Here's a Toko in reasonable light, Toko!


And a Laughing Dove.


Up to Mopani to find out about my Dad's surgery and a quick look for bugs in the flower bed. This time I found a couple in the pond.

A lousy shot but Wolf Spider was walking on water! The fish were trying to eat him but they produced a bow-wave that pushed him away from their mouths!


A Pond Skater, different to the ones I get in my pool at home I think.


On the drive, the game was even less evident than ever, all we managed to see in photographic range was a Grasshopper.




And the early twilight produced some interesting clouds.

Toko wrote:

BluTuna wrote: I have a couple more Tokos to post but not in poor light. Did you miss the one with the interesting lunch a couple of pages back?

No, have seen it, it's a very nice Toko and good photos. But I am very sorry to see the centipede gowing down for a meal

Yes, I would have liked to get some close-ups of that creepy!

and what else
I cant seen this page

Love the cuckoo with babbler mom - great find and amazing photos!

I think the butterfly is a Spotted Sailer Neptis saclava marpessa but difficult to distinguish wihout underside

And a cool Toko

Toko wrote: Love the cuckoo with babbler mom - great find and amazing photos!

I think the butterfly is a Spotted Sailer Neptis saclava marpessa but difficult to distinguish wihout underside

And a cool Toko

Thanks Toko! Glad you like your namesake!

As usual, you a probably right! It looks like the Spotted Sailer has the small white spots on the leading edge of the forewing but the Common Sailer does not!