Monday 27 February 2012

Malachite Kingfisher. Taken from a moving boat.



Yellow-crowned Gonolek


Beautiful Sunbird

Pygmy Sunbird


Osprey - juvenile male

Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu (female) and Black-rumped Waxbill

Senegal Batis - male. A pair of these stunning birds suddenly appeared while i was trying to locate a Nightingale. They were gone quicker than they had appeared. 



Female





Bedtime companion - a large and extremely flat spider which lived above the bed but which occasionally came down to pillow height.