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Baboon young are curious creatures!
Baboon young explore their world with great curiosity. Here a month old baby can’t restrain it’s exuberance – clambers from it’s mother’s back and tries to make a break for it. Mom hangs onto it’s...
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Cape Chacma baboons are playful creatures.
Tussling over a stick, these two young siblings bond through play. The older dashes away with the stick and the little one seems to be complaining, ‘where’s my stick?’ Finally the younger makes off...
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Egyptian geese: a morning stroll.
Putting shapely pink feet forwards, the gaggle draw looks from the locals. Just look at those chicks…. Keep in step now…. off for breakfast at Boulders. A fine feathered beauty. The ubiquitous Egyptian...
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Porcupine becomes road quill statistic.
Sad to think that this beautiful creature has become another ‘road kill’ victim of a speeding car. Although the speed limit on this scenic route has been reduced to 60 km/h there are still road hogs...
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Cape Grey Mongoose
Winter is a difficult time for some of our garden visitors. The creatures, such as the Grey Mongoose live in burrows which often get flooded out by heavy rainstorms. They are diurnal creatures and...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Wrong
It is illegal to feed baboons, yet the perpetrators are never punished. As baboons become more persistent in their search for human food, they can become aggressive and are labelled “Rogue Baboons”....
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The Cape of Storms: Baboons endure.
Female baboons huddle together in the pouring rain. The adults are trying to shelter the baby, but it’s curious and very wriggly and very wet. A bit of tender grooming helps relieve the cold. The rain...
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Christmas Day Caller: Cape Grey Mongoose
Wrapping up the day, in the late afternoon a young caller came past the patio doors, a quick look in as if to wish us well on this, a most perfect of Christmas days. Filed under: Grey Mongoose Tagged:...
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Resolved: The finer details.
For this week’s WordPress photo challenge, Sara Rosso’s topic is to portray being resolved. For those who don’t indulge in New Year’s resolutions and good intentions, she suggests posting something...
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Cape Clawless Otter
We don’t often get to see the otters as they’re shy, elusive creatures, preferring to keep their distance from people. In a rare moment as the sun peeped above the horizon I had a glimpse of a mum...
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Dassies: Safety in Numbers
A six-pack of baby dassies, huddled together. Rooikat, West Coast Park The prey and predator – the dassie brood are skittish at the moment; they make a very tasty snack for the caracal. Our neighbours...
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Boulders Beach
Life down at the penguin colony on Boulders Beach is never dull with it’s steady stream of visitors.Filed under: African Penguin Tagged: Boulders Beach, nature photography, urban edge, urban wildlife
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Off To The Park
“Share a photo that has a little something extra …… ” is the challenge for this week. My topic of interest is how we share urban space with wild creatures, and how we influence their behaviour....
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Dassies 1
Nature on the Edge:Hot off the press!! This new blog rolls out today, and i’m thrilled to be co-contributor. Wilf Nussey, a well known journalist and author, will be telling the Tales of our...
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The Smitswinkel Troop Comes Visiting
On a wet, wintery Sunday morning last month we were roused by our neighbour’s loud shouts and to the call of baboons on the roof. It’s been a while, five years in fact since the Smitswinkel troop last...
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Dialogue
“Dialogue is an engaging conversational exchange” For this week’s challenge bring two photos into dialogue. What do they say to each other?Filed under: African Penguin, Uncategorized, Weekly photo...
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Guineafowl – The racketeers
Nature on the Edge:Guinea fowl with attitude! Wilf’s latest hilarious account or our feathered comedians will be sure to raise a chuckle. Originally posted on Our Urban Wilderness: Everybody knows a...
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Porcupine 1 – The thorny digger
Nature on the Edge:Meet the “Porkies”!! Wilf continues the tales of our wild neighbours and this week it’s my favourite of our nocturnal adventurers…. Originally posted on Our Urban Wilderness: Legend...
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In Memory of Merlin
Now deceased. Merlin, the old warrior, battle scarred, arthritic and possibly the oldest baboon on the Peninsula. He was earmarked for culling two years ago but was given a stay of execution until...
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On the wing
Isn’t it a marvel to watch birds on the wing and note their contrasts in aerodynamic shape? There are those with powerful wing flaps to slender wing form aerialists, and then there are the dumpy...
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