January 1, 2014

My first experience on this first day of 2014 was to be woken up by a new type of  'Rooster'!

It was sitting on the roof above my bedroom and squawking bitterly at  a pair of crows 

that were frolicking in a nearby tree

The Hadeda Ibis is referred to as a "Flying Vuvuzela" in an interesting article in the Huffington Post

The article also states that another "Hadeda nickname is 'la-di-da,' - a poke at what some view as the hoity-toity airs of suburbanites who share their green spaces with the bird"

On my roof it is a plain Hadeda - no airs in this old house :)

December 31, 2013

While sitting at the lookout point over Zincakeni Dam in the Hluhluwe Imfolozi Park I spotted these old trees doing the Happy Dance down in the valley - probably because 2013 is finally over!  

It was a tough year for some and as you can see Lady Tree even lost her head in the process!

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May 2014 be an exceptionally good one - filled with pleasant surprises and many reasons to do the Happy Dance!

Thank you for your visits throughout 2013 and I look forward to seeing you here often in the year ahead. 

In the new year I am not going to feel pressured to go hunting for a photo every day - it feels too much like work ;)  but I will continue to post photos of  'Wild and Wonderful Thingz'  as and when it happens cross my path