A leafy foliose lichen ( Xanthoparmelia substrigosa) on the trunk of my Acacia karroo tree After heavy rains we had in early April, ma...

I had an awesome visitor this morning, a Black-headed Heron (Ardea melanocephala). We don't often see them, mostly just after a veld ...

This Striped Skink was enjoying the sun on the wall of my bathroom court-yard garden and she was heavily pregnant (pic taken last Octobe...

Now that we're over the worst of summer (and it really was the pits, with extreme heat-waves, temps in the 40℃'s and drought) and...

Are hedgehogs in danger from snakes? It's not surprising that such a strange-looking little animal as a hedgehog should be the subj...