30/04/2017 Wet day and I have been catching up with photos taken on our trip to Botswana in February, so here are a few of them.

Maximum temperature 18C, minimum 6C. 29 kmh with 50 kmh gusts SW wind. Cloud and sun.  Quite a bit of rain not measured as yet.

Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus).

Black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas).

Young Zebra.  Burchell's zebra. (Equus burchelli).

Broad-bordered grass yellow  (Eurema brigitta).

Brown Veined White  (Belenois aurota).

Crimson-breasted shrike (Laniarius atrococcineus).

Elegant Grasshopper (Zonocerus elegans).

South African giraffe  (Giraffa giraffa giraffa).

Red hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus caama).

White rhinoceros or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum).

Baboon in hiding!  Family (Cercopithecidae).

Wait for me Mum.  Elephant  (Loxodonta africana).

Pied kingfishers (Ceryle rudis).

Rainbow at Chobe.

and sunset on the Chobe river.

03/03/2017 Back home, no daily photos but a few of our trip to Johannesburg and on to Botswana and Zambia.

Maximum temperature 19C, minimum 7C.  65km/h SW wind. 60 mm of rain while we were away and high winds that have blown the covers of the wood pile, also the compost bins seem to have taken flight over the hedge!

28/01/17 Male African Black Masked Weaver bird (Ploceus melanocephalus) making his nest for the female.  

31/01/17 Our friends Ginger Abyssinian cat Mika. Amazing eyes! 

02/02/17 It is not a stick insect at all as I thought, but a short-horned grasshopper of the Acrididae family.  There are 356 species in this family but unfortunately not all of them have been given scientific names yet.  Thanks Joan.

03/02/17 Zebra - Botswana.

04/02/17 Black Backed Jackal (Canis mesomelas) Botswana

05/02/17 Sunset on the Chobe river - Botswana.

06/02/17 Victoria falls as seen from the Zambian side.

07/02/17 Puku (Kobus vardonii) - Chobe Botswana.

08/02/17  Elephant close to our accommodation at Elephants Sands Botswana.