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These are scans from chromes taken on Tobago. We were also out in boats, worked our way through a mangrove swamp to a spot where scarlet ibis roost overnight, BUT they didn't come in until sundown, the sun sinking below the horizon when they started to fly in. Horrible conditions for using a camera with ISO 200 slide film (? - not certain what was in the camera as I used Velvia, Kodacrome, or a couple speeds of Ektachrome, but very rarely something with ISO as high as 400). Visually the ibis were wonderful, but capturing them in the gloaming with such slow film was pretty much impossible.

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The first one is still a beaut WPRESTO.

More Kelp Gull

[aslyfox]

lioness grooming

SOOC

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Hoepoe in golden light, and eyeing me with suspicion

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west coast sparrow singing his heart out. "Breeding season is so short. Where are you my love?" SCAN

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One of several Kudu bulls from my recent visit to Addo Elephant National Park. My impression is that they are increasing in number.

[aslyfox]

One of several Kudu bulls from my recent visit to Addo Elephant National Park. My impression is that they are increasing in number.

very nice we saw our first wild Greater Kudu in the Selous Game Reserve

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Cape Buffalo and oxpeckers in Selous

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Addo Ostrich looking all regal

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Grey Heron Ardea cinerea in the Selous Game Reserve

Grey Heron

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My large bird, emu in a zoo (not the limo emu). Scan. If these large birds are an indication of how "intelligent" their dinosaurian ancestors were, well, they were pretty witless.

[aslyfox]

mine can fly but yours can't

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This crocodile blends with the background so it takes a moment to see it despite the crystal clear water. Scan

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all twisted up

Long-tailed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus - Reed Cormorant or Long-tailed Cormorant

[ aka Reed Cormorant ]

in the middle of the Rufiji River in the Selous Game Reserve

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Dassie or Hyrax

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Two more images of elephant seal, females or young males. The first heaving sand upon itself, the second with a sand "blanket" presumably as protection from the sun. The gigantic adult males don't arrive here until later, and they make walking on the beach more dangerous. Scans