Woods Mill

Plenty of young birds at Woods Mill.

 Mute Swan and cygnets

 Very attentive male and female Little Grebes feeding young

Moorhen and chick

 Robin

 Flower meadow

 Dandelion seed head, damp with dew

 I think this is an Amber Snail, Succinea putris.

Flowering Timothy grass

 House Sparrows have started to appear in our Hill Road garden Eastbourne, the first in the ten years we have lived here.

 Corn Bunting near Birling Gap. The local population appears to be thriving,

Badgers have started to visit out garden again, after an absence of several months.

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Up at 5.30am for a 6.00am start from Olifants restcamp, heading north.

Blue-eared Starling just catching the first light of the rising sun.

Natal Spurfowl

Young African Bush Elephant

White-fronted Bee-eater

Green Heron

Common Mole Snake, Pseudaspis cana

Nile Crocodile

Letaba River

Sabota Lark

African Bush Elephant

Tawny-flanked Prinia

Rufous-naped Lark

Southern Black Tit

Blue-eared Starling

Cape Dwarf Gecko, Lygodactylus capensiscapensis

Wire-tailed Swallow

Another Sabota Lark

The sky as we crossed the tropic of Capricorn, on route to Tihongonyeni water hole.

The large groups of mammals around the water hole were spectacular.

Common Tsessebe, Damaliscus lunatus lunatus. 

Burchell's Plains Zebra

Large male Elephant.

In addition were Wildebeest and Buffalo.

Male and female Ostrich

Black-winged Stilt

Cape Ground Squirrel, Xerus inauris

Blacksmith Lapwing

Goliath Heron

African Striped Skink, Trachylepsis strata.

Hippopotamus in the Olifants river

Olifants river

Leopard Tortoises

Vervet Monkey

Swainson's Spurfowl

Grey-headed Bush-Shrike