Mane and Virgil join me at my seedlings/plants table. Masked Weaver among a patch of cosmos. Green garden path. Pumpkin climbing one of the fruit trees . (we helped it along a bit ) Tawny flanked Prinia -this afternoon. Catherine and Meeka. Meeka is 19 and our eldest cat. Agapanthas Crab Spider on Lavender Hadeda … More Birds, Cats, Bits and Bobs
Lavender cuttings Potatoes Lourie fledgling Growing Lettuce Eristalis Tenax on Alysum Hadeda Ibis flying home
Millie – Siesta Watching Cricket. Leaving on a … Jacaranda Canopy. Suburb of Kensington. Stuck on the highway. Time for tea and cake? Hillbrow Tower. Ark
Grey Lourie in the palm tree. Ice ejected from the garden hose. Yes, it gets this cold here in Jo’burg. Half-Baked Benji Full-Baked Loaves. Straight from the oven. I am no cake baker but I can manage bread. ”Where’re you going?” Fetching a wandering Chicken. Virgil catching a few zzzzzs Chicken feather Bobbi and Dora … More Cats n’ Dogs & Bits n’ bobs
First Tomato Flower. Nothing special about this shot other than the fact the bird flashed by where I stood and I was holding the camera at waist level and simply pressed the shutter. I was surprised I even managed to get the bird in the frame! Citrus Swallowtail 1st larval form. It is currently in … More Bits and bobs.
Honey Bee on Canna Bird Unknown. Migrant Hoverfly (Eupeodes corollae). Family Syrphidae. Subfamily Syrphinae on Fennel Lemon Rain Thyreus on Lavender Yucca ( Front of the property). Leading you up the path. Weaver at the feeder. First Fruits Ark
Rock Pigeon Heads Collared Dove Storm on its way Afterwards … Hadeda Ibis Crested Barbet on chimney. Fiscal Flycatcher Stormlight
Photographed this Acraea Butterfly this morning. The shrub is just outside the back door and when in bloom – as it is now – the fragrance is magnificent. I have no idea what the shrub is, so don’t ask. Panorama – Jacarandas are also in bloom. This is looking South across the Valley from … More Friday: Bits & Bobs and Odds & Ends
Catherine and Val. After having completed building his nest the Southern Masked Weaver flies to a nearby branch and begins calling for a mate, making an energetic display of singing and fluttering his wings. ”Have sex with Me,Me, Me!! So far,no female has shown any interest in this bloke, and female weavers are very choosy! … More Catherine,Birds,Bobbi & bits and bobs
Cape White Eye in the Palm Tree. Front Garden. Yellow Flag Iris and Tachanid Fly Speckled Mousebird in the Acacia Tree. Pots by the pond Crested Barbet ”27 degrees and all the servants I need. For now I’ll just have a snooze.” Cat and Cactus Bitter Orange. Ark
