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Denzil’s Nature PC.

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First on my Big Five list is the elephant.

Elephants are not afraid of people…

…are only to ready to tell tourists to clear off…

…However, they are not frightend

to press their point of view.

On the other hand Leopards spend a lot

of their time sleeping.

 

The African or Cape Buffalo

The Black Rhino is another member of the Five.

However, the White Rhino is not a member of the Big Five.

The White rhinoceros is taken from the Afrikaans word

describing its mouth: “wyd”, meaning “wide”.

Early English settlers misinterpreted the “wyd” for “white”.

It is also sometimes called the square-lipped rhinoceros.

Source:  Google

I had not forgotten the Lion…

 

…although my best memories are of the lioness

and her cubs.

We spent 20 minutes photograping the cubs

after they came to within 20 feet of us

to do some tourist watching.

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Denzil’s Nature PC.

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Ladybirds were difficult to find until…

we visited our grandson this Saturday morning.

Our daughter-in-Law recently started her

own Gluten Free kichen.

Lo and behold she showed us some Ladybirds

decorating some cupcakes that she had made.

I asked for a photo or two and received

two ladybirds to bring home.

They are edible, gluten free, ladybirds no less.

Ladybirds are a bit of a novelty around here,

and while you will not find these two in nature,

they are the best, the only ones,

I could find.

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Denzil’s-Nature-PC:…Ladybirds

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A Raven of the Tower of London

 

Botswana’s Pied Crow

 

 

A Raven at the

Tower of London…

 

Legend has it that the day there are no ravens

at the Tower, the monarchy will fall.

A local crow.

From a farming perspective, crows are the worst

bird around, this time of year (lambing).

Should a ewe be having difficulty lambing these birds

will attack the eye of either the lamb or the ewe.

On the rare occasion that it appeared that

the ewe and/or lamb would survive the attack

they would invariably die within a few

days from blood poisoning.

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Denzil’s-Nature-PC:…Corvids

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Denzil’s Nature PC.

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Banksia seedpods

 

Leucadendron seedpod.

 

Possibly a Captain Cook Callistemon…

…and its tiny seedpods.

 

I know these as bull rushes

Usually to be found in or near

wet swampy areas.

Agapanthus seed ready to be

blown away on the wind.

 

After the seeds have gone

this is all that is left.

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I think the peaches were given to us…

…the same maybe said about these lemons

although we do have some lemons on a tiny tree…

 

…which grows alongside an tiny orange tree.

I think our apple trees are dwarf trees also

at four months of age,

…as is our cherry tree.

The past couple of years have been

so wet that fruit has been scarce…

…to the extent that after some heavy October rains

just after flowering, in 2022, we could only see around

twenty or so cherries on our tree and decided

that it was not worth netting.

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Denzil’s-Nature-PC:…Edible

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Eucalyptus Tree Bark.

However, not sure which one.

Bark from a tree in Botswana

according to its ‘tags’

Redwood bark from

the redwood forest

at Rotorua,

New Zealand

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