Some Nature Pictures I Took Recently - II (Seasonal Photos)
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dont see many of these on my feeders in sw donegal - although apparently going to see more (apologies for the rough phone pic ! and cant rotate
however wish the cuckoo would shut up, its dark FFS 😁
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Hedge rows of Hawthorn and Blackthorn spectacularly in flower this year .
Pic this evening Ardfert Co. Kerry
Couple of nights ago on the Kerry coast, Wheatear, Stonechat and Swallow . Last pic couple of weeks ago of a Bank vole in the garden.
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Chased this Orange Tip butterfly with my phone, and every time I got close it took off again. Eventually it stopped and I got close enough to take this shot. It was only when I got home and looked at the picture properly that I noticed I'd got a bonus hoverfly.
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Promised I'd throw up a few pictures from my trip of South Africa up to Kenya. Apologies about the quality, they're all camera phone pics as I've yet to download the memory card from my digital camera. The big cats are all rescues from private owners who gave them up, owning a lion or tiger is still legal in South Africa
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These ones from Namibia
Oryx in the desert
Black backed jackal
Stayed up late at a waterhole last night, was about to go back to my tent at 1am but then this male and female white rhino showed up and put on a 90 minute display of a mating ritual. They went horn to horn for ages with the male then chasing the female around the waterhole. The deed didn't get done there but it was epic to watch just 20 metres away
Finally the bit the safari holiday brochures don't show you, the wildlife papparrazzi of which I was one;)
As an aside for the keen wildlife photographers on this forum who always wanted to go then know that safaris in Africa don't have to cost an arm and a leg. Etosha National Park in Namibia where the above pictures were taken is known as a value safari destination compared to Kenya & Tanzania. It's a self drive safari so you just rent a 4x4 jeep with roof tent for about €70 a day and the national park entry is only €7.50 per person per 24 hours spent inside the park. Then off you go and the wildlife really isn't hard to find. Then the campsites in the park have waterholes where you sit and enjoy the action taking place after dark. Bars and restaurants are on the campsites too with reasonable prices for dinner.
Off to Botswana tomorrow so I'll post next week after a visit to Chobe National Park which claims to have some 20,000 elephants inside it.
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