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And a top 5 roadblock

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Other cool stuff includes this super chill superstar

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

Also met an immature saddlebill. Did a happy dance

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Wols x2 🪶

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Demon buffalo 🔥 You have no idea how much I want a good ghost story with a flame-eyed buffalo now. Will also settle for a fantasy antagonist astride a flame-eyed buffalo.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Why does he look like a phantom hitchhiker? 😂

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Accidentally startled Mrs Hornbill on her cask of amontillado-ass nest. Not half as much as she startled me, I'll tell you that 😂😂😭 🪶

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Every time I am in South Africa, I am reminded that somebody really needs to stop South Africa naming biscuits.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Best visitor ever last night

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

This green wood hoopoe is 100% big enough to feed itself, tbh 🪶

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Giant kingfisher for the second time in my life, only about 100km away from where I saw the first in 2022 😁🪶

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Honeybadgerhoneybadgerhoneybadger

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

It's rained a tiny bit today

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Hullo

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This yellowbill stork does not care 🪶

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Got elecharged today. Have never been elecharged in my life before today but had the misfortune of having a grumpy bull step out the bushes. Have never reversed a car so fast 😅 The whole experience is much quieter than you might think.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

I tell a lie. It is only 598 miles from my apartment to the nearest restaurant that does a chicken burger.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

I have achieved a chicken burger! (And what a burger) For those not privy to my chicken burger struggles, I regularly get absurd cravings for one and somehow not a single restaurant within 900 miles of my home does a chicken burger (true, not even exaggerated)

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Marabou storks are Big big. This one is hanging out with the African openbills, which are already full size storks in their own right

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Breakfast time 😁 we're having coffee and eggs, the ground hornbills are having gecko and the spotted hyenas are having zebra

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT NEWS The tiniest baby hippo has arrived Note mum immediately behind

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Saw wild dogs and lions while on foot today 🤩 (dogs pictured, lions not). Reached for a firearm that wasn't there both times, so apparently some habits are firmly ingrained 😂 Aren't they beautiful, though?

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Just because a bit of confusion has arisen from this: conservation organisations, park management, even the police and/or military in some places, will sedate and dehorn these animals. This is as kind as possible. By removing the horn, they remove the target. Poachers kill rather than sedate

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Today's best birds: southern carmine bee-eater, African green pigeon, southern ground hornbill and crested barbet 🪶

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

For obvious reasons, this has been posted on a random future date, with location data omitted. If the reasons don't seem obvious to you, count yourself lucky. People are bastards. My first wild encounter with an intact horn. I cried.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

I fucking love hyenas. Love 'em. All of them. Both the snarly, scary kind and the fuzzy baked potato kind.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

The best kind of traffic stop

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Cracking early morning birding run too, featuring (among others): Woodland kingfisher, eight marabou stork and... my first ever martial eagle 😁🪶

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

Low stakes elephant disagreement around the water hole at midnight

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Morning plans temporarily stalled waiting for an extremely hormonal bull elephant to stop having a tantrum and move a safe distance from the road

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

Also, there is the tiniest lizard. Tiniest.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Chacma baboons are so polite. Top five monkeys, for sure

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

He left his camera in the accommodation then we stumbled across this. The names he called this bird were probably quite similar to the things the bird was calling the lizard.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Visitors 😁

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

First encounter with the lion. The bush is dense as hell at the moment and you don't see them until they're practically in your passenger seat. Got snuck up on by an elephant yesterday, which takes some doing.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment