Camera : Canon EOS 550D  Taken in my back-yard (Tarlton Gauteng, South Africa) After my Greater Striped Swallows (Cecropis cucullat...

My swallows are back, 10 Oct 2013 - stealthily and imperceptibly they arrived; was I unconscious?  Greater-striped Swallow sitt...

Picture from Warwick Tarboton    For the past week or so my Greater Striped Swallows have been getting increasingly more restless unti...

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.    ~ Doug Coupland  ...

... I need only to stand wherever I am . to be blessed. :: Every morning I get woken by the chatter of my Greater Striped Swallows as the pa...

“Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and takes the winds of March with beauty.” - William Shakespeare Done in Moleskine Watercolou...