2016-12-04: Birds of Southern Africa

I was going through my folder of edited photos and realized I have a large number of random bird photos ready to go.  Which is good, because I’ve not managed to get out and capture any of the local wildlife lately!

Even splitting the group of photos I found into two, I’ve still got a fair number of bird photos to post in the future!

I hope you enjoy, and have a great day!

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A magpie shrike perched in an acacia tree.
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A lilac breasted roller perching beautifully for a photo.
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A pair of kori bustards in the Kalahari Desert.
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A green backed heron hunting along the edge of a dam.
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A brown hooded kingfisher.
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A sacred ibis flies over on of the swamps of the Okavango Delta.
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An African wood hoopoe.

2016-12-02: Feel Good Friday

My first day in Buhoma in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, my group took an afternoon village walk with a local guide.  It was a very interesting experience, as we had the opportunity to tour the local school and meet one of the teachers and some of the students, walk through the village market and trek up the hill to visit the pygmy village.

I must admit, the walk up the the pygmy village had me winded and left me very worried for the gorilla trek that happened the following day!  Here I was huffing and puffing along, and had young children passing me carrying large containers of water home; it certainly made me appreciate the luxury of opening a tap at home for water even more than I did before.

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A welcome dance from the Batwa villagers.  Wearing hats made of natural materials was very important to the elders of the group.

After we left the pygmy village, we stopped to talk with locals making banana beer and banana gin (I passed up the opportunity to try either), and were treated to another dance by a group of locals.

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Near one of the shops in the village I spotted this sign; what an excellent example of diversified business strategies!

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2016-11-25: Feel Good Friday

These are the pictures that jumped out at me to post today; I’m not sure why, but I decided to run with it. 🙂

These are from my time in Damaraland, Namibia.  We had the opportunity to explore the Twyfelfontein World Heritage Site to see the bushman rock art.  The rock art depicts people, the animals and birds of the region, and even the location of both permanent and seasonal waterholes.

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A view from the pathway around the rock art site.
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Giraffe, oryx, humans, and I am going to guess a bird like the Kory Bustard are depicted here.
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Giraffe and antelope carvings and the landscape beyond.

If you’d like to learn more about the area, here is a link to a wiki page about it.

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