Butterflies and Birds with Attitude.

Last weekend the butterflies were out so the day became one of closeups of these beautiful creatures.
If any one knows the correct names for these butterflies please let me know. I have tried to the best of my knowledge to name them but have probable misidentified some of the butterflies.
 
The mountain photographs are an on going process and will be posted as and when I have a clutch of them ready.

Butterfly and Bee

 Both of these were very busy collecting or eating nectar.

Blue Butterfly

Blue Butterfly

 I think this is a Smoky Blue

Bulbul

 He just sat and watched me carefully while I photographed him.

Rufas Butterfly

 If any one knows the correct name please let me know.

Acraea Encedon

 I think the common name is Monarch Butterfly

Acraea Encedon

Prinia

This fellow was flitting from bush to bush and shouting the odds at the top of his voice. Here he sat long enough for me to get this shot of him in full voice.

Have a great week and i hope you have enjoyed these photos as much as i have enjoyed both the photographing of them and looking at them.

To all those that took the time to comment on the last post thanks it was greatly appreciated.

Maluti Mountains & Other Images

NEW YEAR 2013

I must add that I went and stood on to of the highest point in the Maluti Mountains That I could get to, not very high by world standards but high enough for me all 2500m above see level, to see the end of the World, but as I thought would happen Nothing just plain nothing.

At last here is the first post of the new year I have been reviewing the photos that I took over the December break.

Here are some of the first ones to be processed.

Old Barn

Blue Tiger

The Stud Stallion standing at Riverton Stud in the Western Province of South Africa.

Kraai River Bridge
(Kraai in English is Crow)

Blue Cranes a mating Pair
These are in one of the Paddocks on Riverton Stud.

Warriors Way River Crossing

The is the route which Mosheshwe and his warriors took thought the mountains to raid the European Settlers and Xhosa people. The Narrow gauge railway (now discontinued) bridge is the river crossing the raiding parties used to take about 100 years ago.

Bully Canary

Kraai River
This was taken upstream of the road bridge.

Daasies Hoek Nature Reserve
Her we have a little known gem in the Robertson Area of the Western Cape

 

Karoo Sunset
This was take just out side of a little town in the Karoo called Victoria West.

There will be more posts of the mountains as I process the raw images.