Strange Things

I think I must start a file called Strange Things You See. I have some good candidates for this already. But to start off here are the baby warthog pics as promised. They are very very cute and active, but a bit flighty – which is a good thing for their survival – but difficult to get good pics of. However, I shall persevere. The middle sized warthog is last years student. She is a true survivor having been the sole youngster of the lawn mob to make it through the drought. We will always recognise her by the notch in her ear.

The dove riding a bronze eland. This dove flew into the window. Knocked a clump of feathers off its neck and sat on my hand blinking with concussion for about ten minutes before taking off in a raggedy manner and landing on the first available perch which was the bronze eland sculpture.

The odd looking birds are blue crane chicks being hand reared by a friend of ours. Their parents are third or fourth generation family pets. We arrived at the house for dinner – and therefore in the dark. The birds came stalking (storking?) out of the darkness, standing about a meter and a half high. They are most elegant creatures but they were a little agitated and kept making a noise like a football rattle and standing in our way. That was all about the chicks though.

After a day of unbelievable heat and headachey thunder pressure when the only solution was to hang in the pool like a frog – it rained properly last night!
We had some friends visiting so everyone had to go outside and do a rain appreciation dance on the lawn. We were drenched and the ground was soft, and it felt so absolutely good.

Oh and I have absolutely no idea how a comment I wrote on An Aerial Armadillo appeared as my blog header. It’s a complete mystery to me.