morning at the hide

sorry i have been gone for to long had a bit of a difficult time over the last few days. i went to one of the hides on a resort recently unfortunately not going to say the name. what these people did is because you get a problem plant called bull rush which is a problem plant due to the fact that it sucks up all the oxygen out the water and kills all the other plants. because of this there are no other plants in the water and this is the only plant life in the system. the problem is that there were lots of bird life living in the bull rush and now they don't have any where to live or feed so then they will leave and find a new area to live in.  there was no poison used to kill the plant except herbicide which does not harm the Eco-system. all that is left is a few red knob-bed coots and lots of ring necked doves.

tribute to somebody special who loves zebra's and wind pumps

birds out the back yard

my cute puppy watching me take photos of birds

sacred ibis in formation

fly over and then do aerobatics down into their rost

crazy weekend

this was one of the craziest weekends that we have had on the farm for a while. we had to do about 3 game drives every day and because i hadn't done any game drives in a while i did all of them for about two hours each. we got to see a lot of different animals over the weekend from giraffe to zebra to impala and we managed to find the secretary birds and a breeding pain of black chested snake eagle. the most awesome thing i saw this weekend with guests was the blue gnu males trotting up and down for hours along side the herd of females to show off their stuff. what they did is the different males which were challenging each other would meet in the heard. then the dominant male would start chasing the lesser male so to say and they would run in circles around the rest of the heard. while they chasing each other they basically start to trot just like a horse. then the males ran away from the heard still chasing each other but more aggressively now, the females and younger males running after them. when the males stopped them they turned onto each other and locked horns and fought for dominance. this was quite an interesting view to watch as it is out of the normal ways of the gnu which usually just stands and eats grass. the most beautiful thing that i had a chance to see was a zebra standing in the middle of my favorite water hole drinking water. i really wish that i could have taken a photo but unfortunately the camera decided to go on strike. but the weekend comes to an end at last and its time to do home and do dishes and washing and wait for the misses to come home. thank you for reading my blog and keep well

regards form Matthew Roach

a few nature photo's for my inspiration(photo's are not taken by me)