Blue Pansy II

Blue pansy
Blue pansy

Junonia orithya is a nymphalid butterfly with many subspecies occurring from Africa, through southern and south-eastern Asia, and in Australia. In India its common English name is the Blue Pansy, but in southern Africa it is known as the Eyed Pansy as the name Blue Pansy refers to Junonia oenone.

Common Lime butterfly II

Common Lime by Tarique Sani (TariqueSani) on 500px.com
Common Lime by Tarique Sani (TariqueSani) on 500px.com

Common Lime by Tarique Sani

Sunbirds can’t hover?

Purple Sunbird male
Purple Sunbird male

Purple Sunbirds usually don’t hover much but this one was hunting for spiders very intently by hovering at the tips of branches

Greater-painted Snipe

Greater-Painted Snipe - Male
Greater-Painted Snipe - Male

Greater-painted snipe is unusual in showing reversed sexual dimorphism; the female is larger and more brightly colored than the male, with the sides of the head, neck and throat a rich chestnut brown, and a distinct black band across the breast; the male is paler and greyer.

Yellow Mongoose!

Yellow Mongoose
Yellow Mongoose

The Yellow Mongoose (Cynictis penicillata), sometimes referred to as the red meerkat, is a small mammal averaging about 1 lb (1/2 kg) in weight and about 20 in (500 mm) in length. A member of the mongoose family, it lives in open country, from semi-desert scrubland to grasslands in Angola, Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_mongoose

Mirror? No wait!

Mirror? no wait! by Tarique Sani (TariqueSani) on 500px.com
Mirror? no wait! by Tarique Sani (TariqueSani) on 500px.com

Mirror? no wait! by Tarique Sani

Johnny Jhonny, Yes Papa….

Johnny Johnny, Yes Papa...
Johnny Johnny, Yes Papa...

The Kentish Plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, is a small wader in the plover bird family. Despite its name, this species no longer breeds in Kent, or even Great Britain. It breeds in a wide range, from southern Europe to Japan and in Ecuador, Peru, Chile, the southern United States and the Caribbean.
The North American Committee of the American Ornithologists’ Union and the IOC World Bird List have voted on or before July 2011 to split the American forms into a new species Snowy Plover, however, no other committee has voted to change taxonomy yet. In that light, the American forms can now be found under a separate species listing Snowy Plover,[2]however all forms can still be found here until further actions are taken.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentish_Plover

Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope by Tarique Sani (TariqueSani) on 500px.com
Kaleidoscope by Tarique Sani (TariqueSani) on 500px.com

Kaleidoscope by Tarique Sani

A pride eats!

Lionesses with a kill
Lionesses with a kill

The Gnu was killed about an hour ago when we reached the spot – Shot with just 135mm, the EXIF shows subject distance at 6.64m I feel it was probably a bit more…

The large size uploaded is 1920×1080, Wallpaper anyone? 🙂

Common Leopard

Common Leopard - Phalanta phalantha
Common Leopard - Phalanta phalantha

Usually this butterfly sits with its wings open – rare to see the underside of wings