Frog

Still in Zambia, still with the little critters, here's a frog.

Bird

OK. Confessions time. I am not a bird-watcher. I can just about tell a vulture from a canary, provided that the vulture hasn't been painted yellow. The only way I can tell a turkey from a duck is by taste.
So whatever this is - blackbird, crow, ostrich* - all I can tell you about it is that as I sat having breakfast on the terrace of a hotel in Zambia, it came down and stole my butter, and then sat in a nearby tree taunting me.

*OK. I know it isn't an ostrich.

Dung Beetle

For my first picture, purely to test that I have the blog set up properly, one of my personal favourites, a dung beetle.
This picture was taken in Zambia, without the aid of a macro lens ,by using my telephoto lens at high magnification from as close as I could get and still focus, which, as I recall, was about four feet away.