Namaqua Dove |
Tree Dragon |
Rattling Cisticola |
White-backed Vulture on nest. |
Cape Glossy Starling. |
Ostrich |
Arboreal Mouse. |
Secretary Bird |
Adult Spotted Eagle-Owl. |
Juvenile Spotted Eagle-Owl. |
House Gecko |
Swallow-tailed BeeEater |
Wahlberg's Eagle |
Lanner Falcon. |
Yellow-billed Hornbill. |
Imm. Pale Chanting Goshawk. |
Flat Skink. |
African Hoopoe. |
Swallow-tailed BeeEater and fledgeling. |
Young Spotted Eagle-Owl |
Juv.Spotted Eagle-Owl |
White-backed Vulture trying its wings. |
Black-shouldered Kite |
Pale Chanting Goshawks. |
Black-backed Jackal. |
Imm. Black-chested Snake Eagle. |
Blesmol. Seen on Night drive. |
Marsh Owl. |
Yellow Mongoose. My favourite I think. |
Speckle-fronted Weaver. |
Tinkling Cisticola |
Striped Kingfisher. |
Bat-eared Fox nursing. Ouch! |
The family portrait. |
Adults. |
Spike-heeled Lark. |
Springbok. |
Short-tailed Bat on me hat! |
Red-headed Finches. |
Ask the Meerkat! Simples! |
White-tailed Mouse. |
Ground Squirrels. |
Lookout duty! |
No, it's not. It just looks like it is! |
Pygmy Falcon. |
Tortoise. |
Desert Agamas. |
Red-fronted Barbet. |
Cape Fox. |
Really cute guys. |
Lanner Falcon. |
Masrtial Eagle, juv, with a very full crop. |
African Wildcat. |
Spotted Eagle Owl. |
Adult Martial Eagle. |
Steenbok. |
Namaqua Sandgrouse. |
Getting to know the Meerkats. |
Eland Bull. |
Oryx (Gemsbok) |
Barchan Dunes. |
Karoo Koorhan. |
Sand dunes near Sesreim. |
Deadvlei, Sesreim. |
Great beach but the tides out. |
Burchell's Courser. |
Stormy sky at Barchan Dunes. |
The sun is back. |
Greater Crested Tern. |
Fur Seals are pleased to see us. |
Cape Fur Seals. Walvis Bay. |
We took a small boat out. |
Lunch was Walvis Bay Oysters. |
Great White Pelican. |
White-fronted Plover. |
Greater Flamingo. Swakopmund |
Cape Fur Seals. (250,000 or so!) |
Close up of female. |
Seal pups in Nursery. |
Part of the main colony. |
The forbidding entrance to the Skeleton Coast National Park. |
Klip Valley from Grootberg Lodge. Elephant and Rhino down there. |
Grootberg Lodge. |
Grootberg Elephant. |
Dassie Rat. |
Orange River Francolin. |
We go looking for Rhino on foot. |
And find two! She has a calf. |
As close as we go! |
Klipspringers. |
Rufous-crowned (Purple) Roller. |
Cape Bunting |
Day of the Long necks. |
Short-toed Rock Thrush |
Golden-breasted Bunting. |
Familiar Chat. |
Klipspringer. They walk on tip toe! |
Greater Kudu. |
Kalahari Scrub Robin. |
A lovely African Wildcat. |
Yellow Canary. |
Common Buzzard. |
Spotted Dikkop. |
Damara Dik Dik. |
Many hands make light work. |
Giraffe. |
Elephant. |
Female Agama lizard. |
Red-capped Lark. |
Capped Wheatear. |
Zebra. No jokes about crossings.) |
Steenbok. |
Lanner Falcon. |
Black-backed Jackal family. |
An Elephant challenges an Oryx for the waterhole. |
The Oryx takes it out on his friend. |
Red-crested Koorhan (Bustard) |
Road block. |
We see three large males coming our way. |
So we park up where we think they will cross. |
At a safe distance, er.... |
Well they think we should be nearer. |
Chris gets all this down. |
Our room at Okaukuejo. |
A fine Black Rhino takes right of way. |
A Spotted Genet. The wire is round the Waterhole. Not a cage. |
Double-banded Courser. |
We are again in the right place at the right time. |
Right passed the car. |
Male Lanner Falcon. |
Shaft-tailed whydah. |
A Mantis on our doorstep |
Another Old boy comes to say Hello. |
Once again he is happy to approach us. |
Leans in to greet Chris. |
A Gynogene raids a Social Weaver's nest. |
Tawny Eagle does a fly past. |
Red Hartebeeste. |
Red Dragonfly. Whiteknuckles is not all about Mammals. |
We are in luck with yet another Lion encounter. |
His girlfriend fancies a game of Frisbee. |
He does not think so. Maybe tomorrow? |
I have a lot to think about. |
And I do my best thinking lying down. |
Flap-necked Chameleon. |
Remember the Burchell's Courser? This is Temminck's |
Immature Bataleur Eagle. |
European BeeEater. |
The endangered Blue Crane. |
Red Hartebeeste and calves. |
Wildebeeste and calves. |
Pearl-spotted Owlet. Sitting quiet above a noisy crowd of people. |
Red-billed Teal and Cape Teal. |
We find Three Cheetah cubs. |
Mother looks on. |
Time to have a stretch. |
We find another Cheetah family. |
One decides to climb a tree. |
Black-chinned Prinia. |
A pair of Greater Kestrels. |
Wattled Starling. |
Eyes like a hawk. Whiteknuckles guides are the best. |
We disturb an old chap at his morning ablutions. |
A rival is in the queue. |
Mr Gullible captures the moment. |
Don't you just hate these early morning waits outside the Bathroom? |
The Old Man decides to check us out. |
A Whiteknuckles 'moment'. |
I should worry it was on Mr.Gullible's side! |
Pied Babbler. |
Chestnut-banded Plover. |
Greater Kestrel. |
Girl. |
Boy. |
Boy gets Girl. |
Black-shouldered Kite. |
Another Mantis. |
Another Rhino. |
And another. |
Rhinos everwhere. A lady taking a bath. |
She has a calf with her. |
Glistening with fresh mud. |
Flap-necked Chameleon with Albert. |
A resting pride. |
Mum gets up to check us out. |
As even Mr G gets the shot. Female first. |
Now a young male. That is why I position the car for him. Honestly! |
Black-shouldered Kite. Photogenic birds. |
Greater Kudu. |
Unknown Grasshopper. |
Red Lechwe. We are now in the Caprivi. |
Little Reed Frog. |
Open-bill Storks and White-faced Ducks. |
Blue-cheeked BeeEaters. |
Panting in the heat. |
Collared Pratincoles. |
A small Croc. |
Black-crowned Night Heron. |
Slaty Egret. |
African Jacana. Lots of Waterbirds in Caprivi. Lots of water too. |
Yellow-billed Egret. |
A Bwabwati bathing party. |
One of them comes over to check our Permit. |
He stamps his foot. |
Then blocks the road. |
Now his Aunt joins in. |
Quite a strop. |
Southern Red Bishop. |
LeVaillants Cuckoo. |
A Junior gives us a farewell toot. |
Luapula Cisticola. Would I lie? |
Purple Heron. |
More bathers. |
We get a friendly wave from her. |
And a stomp from him. |
Little BeeEaters. |
Brown-hooded Kingfisher. |
Woodland KIngfisher. |
Southern Carmine BeeEater. |
Rufous-bellied Heron. |
Monitor Lizard basking. |
A tranqil evening on the River Kwando. |
Lesser Spotted Eagle. |
Crimson-breasted Bushshrike. |
Wood Sandpiper. |
Side-necked Terrapin. |
We came to Mudumu NP so that Mr G might see Roan Antelope. |
So we found him five. Roan in the Road. |
One poses nicely too. |
This is a fine Sable Antelope. |
Buffalo. |
Lesser Jacana. |
Peter's Epaulletted Fruit Bat on Mango. Mahangu Lodge. |
Red Lechwe. |
Lilac-breasted Roller. |
Common Sandpiper. |
Common Greenshank. |
Wattled Lapwing. |
White-backed Vulture. |
Hippo eating the lush grass of Mudumu. |
Mopane Caterpillar. |
Brown-crowned Tchagra. |
Souza's Shrike. |
Pygmy Goose. |
A dazzle of Zebra. |
Woodland Kingfisher. |
The same from the front. |
A final look from another Roan. |
Our Bungalow at Frans Indongo. Our final stop. |
One of our favourite places. |
Common Waterbuck. |
Gecko to keep the flies down.. |
A really colourful Grasshopper. |
Quite Disneyesque. |
Bontibok. |
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