Dragon flies, bulbuls and a frog

 Good morning, Blogger friends, I'm determined to capture every interesting critter that crosses my path. 

While at the large house in October, with my visiting children, I snapped a dragon fly on just above the sliding door. 

While waiting for our Taigelates class to start last Friday, a pair of bulbul landed on my car. One flew off and landed on the roof of the building in front of me. The other sat on my car's rear-view mirror offering several photo opportunities. 

Dark-capped bulbul

Back home, I saw a movement in the dog's water bowl which is half concealed by my lush mint garden. Checking, I scooped out a tiny frog!

A type of tree or reed frog (I'm not able to ID it)

I'm linking to Saturday Critters with Eileen, here

HAPPY SATURDAY TO YOU ALL! 

Rainbow and a zebra

 Good afternoon, dear Blogger friends. Several weeks ago, just as the weather was becoming cold, I snapped a beautiful rainbow in the Valley. 

Thandi and I were on our way to clean The Bunker when I stopped to capture this beautiful phenomenon. While doing so, I explained to Thandi that according to folklore, if we could find the end of the rainbow (which was VERY close to the car as I took the photos), we would discover great riches. In her culture, mentioning a pot of gold would not make sense to her. So I said we'd find a basket of money - banknotes. I'd been telling her this while keeping my eyes on the camera screen. She was dead quiet. When I turned to look at her, she slanted her eyes at me and clicked her tongue. She definitely didn't believe me! 

As this photo shows, the end was quite close to from where I was snapping it! 

As we entered The Bunker property, we encountered one of the three regular visitors to the estate

Burchells

Burchells Zebra

There are two adult zebra and a younger one. They seem to have wandered down from the nature reserve. As always when wild animals become tame around humans, they become a problem. The other residents on this estate regularly chase this stiped trio across the river boundary and into the nature reserve. 

The guests of course, LOVE seeing these interesting animals grazing on the Bunker lawn. 

I'm linking this post to Saturday Critters here

HAPPY SATURDAY TO YOU ALL!