Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Weird wildlife





On a trip to the 'Burg in August, I stopped by the Wildlife Safari to kill some time and shot three zebras eating in perfect "uniform" order. A watusi with some big horns, a smaller antelope type animal that has some 'NASA-like' secret substance on its antlers after it has probably gored a few other safari animals. ( a larger antlope family animal had the same thing on its horns, too). Some years ago, the head vet told me they do this a fair amount when males get out of hand..looks like tennis balls but the substance, like play-doh until it hardens, is really out of this world. The bloody antlers is from the fuzz-like hair molting off an adult fallow deer's antlers. Painless but looks a bit awful.

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Well, it's back to blogging.





after many, many months off, I have come to the decision to blog. For no other reason than to let more people see what goes on here in B'ham as we call it. So after nine months here. These are a very few favorite pics. It isn't the Olympics but it's what goes on here when the world's attention was elsewhere. There will be more tomorrow.