X is for eXotic

These eXotic animals aren't really all that unusual, they are just not ones we see every day. The photos were all taken in Botswana on our 11th trip to southern Africa in 2006. You can see lots more by taking virtual safaris with my journals which can be found on my website: http://www.toogoodoostudios.com

Lilac-breasted roller

Maribou storks

Jackass penguin (in South Afica)

African elephant baby and very protective mother

Lioness (this photo won a prize)
African fish eagle--the only true relative of our bald eagle.

Southern giraffe

Yellow-billed stork.

Spotten hyena
Palms in the sunset

Chacma baboon taking the air

Chacma baboon acting as a sentinal

Angry bull elephant mock charging

Vervet monkey baby

Woodland kingfisher Only two more letters to go and I can go back to a normal blog and reopen comments.

For now, please email any comments or questions to:

bwkrucke@gmail.com

Thanks.

Q is for Quality and as it turns out Quantity too!

I got a good suggestion from Birdgirl to use Quality for my alphabet Q. So I chose some of my favorite recent photographs. Then I remembered all my African photographs that were my favorites too. So here are way too many from Africa followed by some from here and there too. They will all have to be clicked larger to see probably.

What do you see here?

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Local swamp

Reflections in the Canadian Rockies

Casting for shrimp


Lake Moraine in the Canadian Rockies


Lantana blossom forming

Prize winning louts photo printed in SC Wildlife Magazine

Prothonotary warbler photo used on SC Audubon website

As I look at these I think of many more that I like too. So many photos, so little time! Email me if you want to know about any of these.

bwkrucke@gmail.com

thanks