PAST DRIVES

Good Evening!

Hope your weekend went well! Ours was chilly, but nice. I noticed that the first ruby-throated hummers were spotted as close to us as Charlottesville, VA on the 28th of this month, so I put out my first hummer feeder today! Wish me luck! It was a bust last year, so I'm due! Just like Pieter and his ellies! LOL
I have a bunch of odds and ends from past drives that I wanted to send to you before I put them in a folder. A lot of them are one-time shots that will never come around again, so here they are (captioned, of course!): ~ DaveKay



Now THIS is a face! (male steenbok)


A nice mixture



A competitive male nyala. Check out the spinal mane! (I saw them once, struttin around)

On the hunt

More African "sunworks" (I was on this one, it was spectacular)

A dove couple settled in for the night

Another shot of Rexon's previous "hitchhiker", on its home web...


A family of crested francolins, in for the night

A pearl-spotted owl. Cute! (Was this one one where it was eating and dropped it then flew down to the road?)

Pieter did a good job of setting up this shot

My Rocky's African cousin!

Glossy starling

Lilac-breasted roller. This bird reminds me of the colored chicks you used to get at Easter...

Kingfisher. Usually the first thing you hear when you link up with the "Drive" in the morning

Bush hare

Pastoral scene

Looks like this little fella just stepped off a carousel!

Real handsome!

Clean-up man (vulture). Striking-looking bird, though.

Go-away bird. One of Booger's distant relatives, I'll bet! (Possibly but I'd be more inclined to say related to Dirty Bird ~ for those of you wondering Booger is my Ring-necked parakeet and Dirty Bird is one of my Cockatiels)

A magpie shrike

Last, but certainly not least, a stare from one of Karula's lovely daughters!

Enjoy !

Images courtesy of http://www.wildearth.tv/ (Drive cam) and DaveKay

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DRIVE HI-LITES

Hello!

Hope your Easter was a good one for everyone! In our neighborhood, we were surrounded by tons of squealing kids hunting Easter eggs! I guess that was our preview of coming attractions! LOL The weather was cool but sunny, so everyone was outside doing something! All the backyard bunch are busy nesting, preparing for the Spring outbreak of young'uns! In the back of my brain, I'm secretly hoping for another deer visit, but the odds are not in my favor. We'll see...
O.K., all I have this time is an offering of bits and pieces of various drives. My memory is getting to the point where all dates and times run together -- they say that's the second thing to go! LOL Anyway, I've thrown these shots together as another "sampler" -- with captions:

One of Pieter's favorite trees

African katydid

A moon

A moon tree

Sparring partners

Djuma traffic jam

Look at that rack!




Spitting cobra. Rexon was really nervous with this one! Can't blame him!

Another beautiful African product


Steenbok. A rare sighting.

Raffie

Wild dogs

Kingfisher

A flying chili pepper (as the natives call them)

Wahlberg's in flight



According to Pieter, this fella was staring at Alex's green shirt!

Pieter's tiny stowaway.

Hope you enjoy!

Images courtesy of www.wildearth.tv (Drive cam) and DaveKay

Thanks for sharing. But if memory is the second thing to go, what's the first ?? LOL

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TREAT FROM THE HEAVENS .....

Victoria Bay

Image courtesy of http://www.africam.com/ (Victoria Bay cam) and Mothernature

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Ellies and Sunrise

Gowrie Sunrise

Full moon peeking

What can I say, just awesome!

Sun on Gowrie

Djuma clouds

Sun hidden by fog

Sunset and raffie

Images courtesy of http://www.wildearth.tv/ (WE Drive cam) and Mothernature

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Nature continues to awe and amaze me with the colors it can produce. Thank you Mothernature for sharing these with us.

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