We can’t think of a better way to celebrate World Wildlife Day than to look back at the 64 species of South African wildlife we gave special attention to here at de Wets Wild over the past year.
Click on the first image, scroll through the gallery and by the end of it you are sure to believe, as we do, that South Africa is a treasure chest of beautiful creatures that you absolutely have to visit!
Garden Commodore (wet season colouration)
Black-collared Barbet
Cape Batis (female)
Boomslang
Drakensberg Malachite
Olive Thrush
Golden-breasted Bunting
River Lily
Cape Turtle Dove
Common Blue (Leptotes sp)
Jackal Buzzard
Speckled Rock Skink
White-rumped Swift
Highveld Cabbage Trees
African Olive Pigeon
Rainforest Brown butterfly
Levaillant’s Cisticola
Southern Rock Agama
Cape Canary
Common Tree Ferns
Male Greater Double-collared Sunbird
Yellow Pansy butterfly
African Hoopoe
Common River Frog
Common Sugarbush
Garden Acraea on exotic lantana
Rock Monitor
Male Southern Double-collared Sunbird
Ouhout leaves
Drakensberg Prinia
Gurney’s Sugarbird
Forest Canary
Rock Kestrel
Capped Wheatear
Cape Bunting
Cape Crow
Yellow-billed Oxpecker
Mopane leaves are uniquely butterfly- or spoor-shaped
Olive Sunbird
Thread-waisted Wasp and caterpillar prey at Marakele
Red-billed Teal
Beautiful impala lily flowers
Flap-necked Chameleon
Bennett’s Woodpecker (male)
African Monarch butterfly
Kurrichane Thrush
Sausage Tree Fruit
Purple-crested Turaco
Red Toad at home outside our cottage
White-crowned Lapwing
Brown-veined White
Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow
Velvet Ant female – This flightless wasp mimics an ant whle searching for unsuspecting prey.
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
Black-bellied Bustard
Citrus Swallowtail
Orange-breasted Bush Shrike
Large-spotted Genet in Tamboti
Martial Eagle
Common Dwarf Gecko
Sabota Lark
Sickle Bush flowers
Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
Two-pip Policeman (butterfly)
DeWetsWild 
wonderful photos!
Thank you so much!
Vrek… dis mooi verby!
Dankie julle drie, ek het nou weer lekker gekuier!!
Mooi bly – pasop vir die biergriep… 😁😁😁
Altyd lekker as jy kom kuier, AJ, en pas julle ook mooi op!
A wonderful overview of your sightings and posts and a great celebration of our wildlife.
Putting this one together was such a delight, Carol – thinking back on all the happy memories made in our great outdoors!
I remember that last one! Great line up!
Thank you very much, Robert!
How beautiful – thank you for sharing your lovely photographs.
Thanks for having a look through the lot!
Just a small fraction of the treasures in nature!
Absolutely, Joanne! There’s more “out there” than we can even begin to imagine, pity we treat it so carelessly.
So ‘n pragtige veerskeidenheid foto’s Dries! Perfek vir hierdie dag!
Baie dankie, Aletta!
Fantastiese versameling foto’s, Dries! Ek verlang sommer na die bos as ek hierdie sien.
Ek ook, dankie Dina!
A perfect picture gallery. We are so fortunate to be able to enjoy all this – and even more!
We really are, Anne.
One day, Dries. What a treasure.
We’d love to have you visit, Tracy – I hope “one day” comes soon!
We’re not in a position to do that at the moment, Dries. Maybe the five year plan (if not before). That could work. Now you’ve got me REALLY thinking. 🙂
We’ll look forward to your visit!
Great gallery – thank you for the review!
Thanks for joining us, Ann-Christine!
A wonderful gallery of South African wildlife, Dries. The Boomslang has a really mean face as opposed to the sweet turtle dove who looks so kind. 😃
Thanks, Sylvia – it takes all kinds, doesn’t it!?
Yes, it does. 😅