President Ramphosa extended lockdown due to pandemic thorough the end of April. This means I must redouble efforts to maintain sanity.
Carrying an old-style camera around the large garden helps. And patience. After waiting in the hot sun, flies buzzing around, for what felt like an hour for this crab to perform for a video clip, I gave up and shot stills.
Note to wildlife photographers: I salute your patience and dedication to the beauty of the natural world.
Research shows this
damselfly is Africallagma sapphirinum, the sapphire bluet, a species in the family Coenagrionidae. Endemic to South Africa, its natural habitat is ponds and lakes with floating aquatic plants. Guess where I saw it? Yes, posed on a floating aquatic plant.
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I'm impatient for the day this garden reveals some long-mourned endangered species. So far, while extraordinary, most of the critters I've stumbled upon have been of the "Common" variety.
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