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anjab.bsky.social
@anjab.bsky.social
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Love taking photographs preferably in nature.
Living in Africa.
Photographs my own and unfiltered.
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anjab.bsky.social @anjab.bsky.social · Oct 15
He is so cute 😍
Redheaded Weaver
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#Praying #Mantis
#photography #nature #outdoors #garden #goedemorgen #insect
Large insect seen underneath through the window. Brown and black with long legs, brown eings and protruding eyes.
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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#Southern #Carmine #BeeEater
#photography #nature #outdoors #birdwatching #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Botswana
Beautiful bird with several colours, reds, pinks, and turquoise sitting on a dead tree.
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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My present this morning!
Baby #Monitor #lizard, busy shedding its skin.
Recently I found it in our lounge but managed to persuade it to go play outside.
#photography #garden #wildlife #Francistown #Botswana
Black and beige lizard with a striped tail and a dark body with white spots sitting on a tree branch. It disappeared later into a hole in the branch.
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Better view of this handsome man as the last one I posted 😂
#photography #nature #wildlife #lion
A male lion lying relaxed in the shade, one leg resting on a root of the tree. Eyes slightly open, checking us out before continuing his snooze.
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Poor Shongo being attacked by #Assassin #Bug #nymphs!
#photography #nature #garden #Francistown #Botswana
Brown/beige Millipede being attacked by bright red nymphs os the assassin bug.
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Love the blue/black colour of the wings of this wasp.
#photography #nature #outdoors #garden #wasp
Large black wasp with blue/ black wings seen from the front, eating from a green small flower in a tree with bright green leaves.
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Some courting going on?
#Woodland #Kingfisher
#photography #nature #outdoors #garden #goedemorgen #birdwatching #Francistown #Botswana #Africa #BirdsSeenIn2025
Three photos of a white bird with a red bill and black and striking blue wings. The top two photos are of two birds greeting eachother with their wings outstretched.
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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#Emeraldspotted #Dove
#photography #nature #outdoors #garden #goedemorgen #birdwatching #Francistown #Botswana #Africa #BirdsSeenIn2025
Brown dove, grey head, two dark bars on its back and emerald coloured spots on its wings, sitting on a branch looking back at us over its shoulder.
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Mrs #Masked #Weaver with the soft furnishings for her new nest.
#photography #nature #outdoors #garden #goedemorgen #birdwatching #Francistown #Botswana #Africa #BirdsSeenIn2025
Weaver bird with brown/grey upper parts and pale yellow chest and body, sitting on a twig holding some grass with seeds in her bill.
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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He is so handsome!
#paradise #Flycatcher #photography #nature #outdoors #garden #goedemorgen #birdwatching #Francistown #Botswana #Africa #BirdsSeenIn2025
Three photographs of a grey bird, with a dark head, red/brown wings and long tailfeathers, and blue bill and around his eyes. He is preening himself and the tail is curling with his movements.
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Happy Monday!
#photography #nature #outdoors #garden #goedemorgen #butterfly #flower #beauty
Brown butterfly with cream spots, wings outstretched, sitting on a red flower.
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Upside down. Have a lovely Sunday.
#photography #nature #outdoors #garden #goedemorgen #Francistown #Botswana #rose #flower #praying #Mantis
A little green praying mantis is hanging upside down on a white rose.
November 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Happy weekend everyone!
Sunset seen through a tree in the reeds, reflected in still water with waterlily leaves.
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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#Yellowbilled #Stork and #Sacred #Ibis sharing a tree for nesting.
#photography #nature #goedemorgen #birdwatching #Okavango #Delta #Botswana #BirdsSeenIn2025
4 photographs of a tree full of birds. Two species, one a large black and white stork with a large yellow bill, the other a smaller black and white bird with a large curved black bill.
November 14, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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#Brownhooded #Kingfisher hunting in the pool.
Insert: drying after the plunge.
#photography #nature #outdoors #garden #goedemorgen #birdwatching #Francistown #Botswana #Africa #BirdsSeenIn2025
A brown bird with a long red bill, white chest, and bright blue inderwings seen emerging from the water after a dive in the pool. The insert shows the same bird still wet, sitting on a branch.
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Keeping with the homely feel: pedestrians on the road to the gate.
#guinea #fowls
Two specled fowls with lightblue faces and red on top of their heads aeen on a dirt road just after some rain.
November 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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We are running out of walls to display our photographs 🤣 This is Huub's latest.
A large black and white photograph of zebras drinking water displayed above a brown sofa.
November 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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So close! 😬
#crocodile #close_up #reptile #photography #nature #wildlife #goedemorgen #Okavango #Delta #Botswana
A photo of a crocodile head from very close-by. The eye is clearly visible. Half submerged in water and some vegetation over it.
November 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Red Velvet Mites
#photography #nature #garden #Francistown #Botswana
Two red mites with a velvety texture skin
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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A quick dip
#Paradise #Flycatcher
#photography #nature #outdoors #garden #goedemorgen #birdwatching #Francistown #Botswana #Africa #BirdsSeenIn2025
Grey bird with rust coloured wings and two long tailfeathers, bright blue surroundings of the eyes, seen flying up after a quick dip in the birdbath. Droplets flying.
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Nature's sanitary department
#Dungbeetle #photography #nature #garden #Francistown #Botswana
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Colourful #Grasshopper
#photography #nature #outdoors #garden #goedemorgen #insect #Francistown #Botswana
Large colourful insect. Green face, black top of its head, yellow and black body, and orange and black legs.
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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#Blackheaded #Centipede #Eater
A tiny snake. I nearly stood on it.
#photography #nature #garden #goedemorgen #reptile #snake #Francistown #Botswana #Africa
A very thin, grey snake with a black head. Photo from above. Insert is a photo low down from the front showing its face
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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🥰🦒
#photography #nature #wildlife #goedemorgen #Giraffe #Botswana #Africa
Long legged giraffe eyeballing us curiously. An Oxpecker is looking for ticks on its long neck.
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Seeing double
#photography #nature #wildlife #goedemorgen #hippopotamus #Okavango #Delta #Botswana
Two Hippos with their heads just above the water, perfectly aligned so it looks like one Hippo has two sets of ears.
November 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM