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- Indoor Arum lilies.
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- Pearl Spotted Owlet in Mjejane Game Reserve, Mpumulanga.
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- Male lions in Pilanesberg Game Reserve.
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- Standing Stones, Postberg, West Coast National Park.
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- Black-headed heron Postberg, West Coast National Park.
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- Chestnut-vented Tit-Babbler in the West Coast National Park.
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- The table cloth is billowing.
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- Curious Brown Hooded Kingfisher. While on holiday Thorny Bush Game Reserve.
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- Beware of twigs that go snap in the night – you never know what’s out there! This magnificent male leopard was spotted near Simbambili Game Lodge in the Sabi Sand reserve.
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- Happy day: flower goat and tree.
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- Wednesday Morning Ride. Milnerton, Cape Town
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- “I’ll fix your headache”. Red billed oxpecker – Hoedspruit.
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- “A winter visitor”. Grey-headed bush shrike.
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- Mirror mirror… Kiddington Estate.
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- Fire on Water (somewhere near Plettenberg Bay)
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- Shadow-play: Flower season in Langebaan.
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- The first blush of sunrise.
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- My moustache!
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- Nature’s way of social distancing….humans struggle with it! Sea Point promenade.
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- “The very best rat catcher’ – Black-shouldered Kite.
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- An Air Tractor crop duster beneath the North West skies.
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- Shriking the daisies, Postberg, West Coast National Park.
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- You need to know when to stop!
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- Welcome to my spring garden!
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- Sunrise in the park
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- Monday morning board meetings in Melkbos.
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- A Southern Fiscal’s murderous mid-preen stare.
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- Ag, humans again… A sleepy leopard in Kruger.
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- Work colleagues at home, not pulling their weight. Bentley, the couch king.
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- Camps bay sunset.
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- Aren’t I pretty?
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- Summer is on the way in the Franschhoek Valley!
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- Summer is on the way in the Franschhoek Valley!
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- A Pearl Spotted Owlet on a Monday.
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- They call me Mellow Yellow.
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- Up, up and away! Yellow-billed duck taking off. East London
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- Namibian stonemen by an unknown artist gather near the Huariseb in Namibia.
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- Yellow-billed Duck flying away from incoming weather.
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- Cool dawn.
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- Sunset in the park
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- For the love of dogs. Strand beach 12 September.
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- Babiana.. Flowering in their massas on the West Coast, Western Cape..
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- Sunrise in Clarens.
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- Arrival: Turbine blades. Planting wind farms? Nature will love you… 2021.09.10 Durban , The Point.
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- St Lucia Estuary Beach, “Good Morning”.
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- What a start to the day. Knysna 10/9/21
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- Sunset over Knysna west head.
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- Winging It in Muizenberg 10.09.21.
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