A visit to Porcupine Camp in Namibia
One of the highlights of a recent trip was a visit to Porcupine Camp situated about 8 kilometers out of Kamanjab on the C40. It’s not uncommon for farms to specialize in certain animals,...
The Blessings
The man whispered : “God speak to me” and a bird sang, but the man did not hear So the man yelled : “God speak to me” and the thunder rolled across the sky,...
Mating Lions
The photographs of animals and birds that are posted on our web site are invariably taken “in the wild” and not in zoos or other places where the animals or birds are confined in...
Bird of the Week – Week 127 – White-browed scrub-robin
The White-browed scrub-robin, like many of the robins, is often heard and rather less often seen. The males and females are alike in both size and plumage coloration and it is of fairly average...
On Photographing a Black-shouldered kite
Photographing birds is a rewarding pastime. Rewarding but also incredibly frustrating. Birds seem to be able to sense when you are about to take a photograph and duck behind a convenient branch or take...
Bird of the Week – Week 126 – Yellow-billed oxpecker
Although grouped into the larger family that includes the Starlings and Mynas, oxpeckers are really rather different and have adapted well to their unusual feeding arrangements. They have strong feet with sharp claws and...
The Hippopotamus or River Horse
Picture this … Two tourists climb into a boat with a guide and as they glide upstream the guide tells them that if they are confronted by an aggressive hippopotamus they mustn’t even think...
Bird of the Week – Week 125 – Black cuckoo
The first indication that you will get that a Black cuckoo is in the neighborhood is likely to be the mournful call “I’m so siiiiiiick” repeated often enough to convince you that there is...
Crocodiles – sneaky devils of the deep
I’ve just finished reading the delightful little story “The Elephant’s Child” by Rudyard Kipling (Just So stories) in which he described how the elephant got its trunk. A curious little elephant went on a...
Bird of the Week – Week 124 – Green-backed heron
The Green-backed heron is one of the smaller of the many herons found within the southern African region, being approximately 41 cm in length. The males and females are similar in both size and...
Spitzkoppe Revisited
One of our favourite areas in Namibia is the Erongo region and we’ve spent many happy hours exploring this amazing part of the country. It is here that one finds the majestic Spitzkoppe mountains...
Bird of the Week – Week 123 – Yellow-fronted canary
The Yellow-fronted canary is a beautiful little bird, about 12 cm in length, which has been quite extensively persecuted by the cage bird brigade (where it is often called a Green singing finch), not...
The Big Five – Part 5 – The African Elephant
Today’s blog on elephants is the final in my five part series about The Big Five. Elephants have always been on my personal list of favourite animals. There is something about elephants that I...
Bird of the Week – Week 122 – Ant-eating chat
The Ant-eating chat is endemic to the southern African region and within the region is fairly widespread, although it is absent from most of Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Swaziland in the east and from the...
The Big Five – Part Four – Rhinoceros
Over the past three weeks I have blogged about the animals known in southern Africa as ‘The Big Five.” Today it’s the turn of the rhinoceros, of which there are two species in our...
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