Weekly Photo Challenge: Vibrant Rollers

A submission to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Vibrant

Looking for all the world like a young child has coloured in a picture of a bird. The Lilac Breasted Roller – the most vibrant of birds!
We have seen a number of these birds on Safari in the Serengeti and Chobe Game Reserves- but they live locally too – though I have yet to see one in the garden.

Roller Close Up

Roller Landing

Roller in Flight

Roller

Roller Turn

Roller on a Wire

Lilac Breasted Roller

Close Up 2 Roller

UK 50K

Soon this blog will celebrate it’s second anniversary. Over this time people from all over the world have paid a visit.

Recently a milestone was reached in that 50000 views from the UK, out of a total number of views just under 75000 from just over 17000 visitors.

The map shows visits from across the globe with a few gaps. The redder the colour the more views.  The top 25 viewers are listed below. My old home and my new home feature strongly ahead of the US,Canada and Australia, with a swathe of European countries punctuated by mostly British Commonwealth.

The white areas have yet to visit including Cuba, Guyana, South Sudan, Cote D’Ivoire, Somalia, Chad, Niger, Lesotho, Montenegro, Moldova, Kyrgysztan, Afghanistan among others.

There are discrepancies, in that visits from Mauritania, Iran and Uruguay have not been recorded as views although visits have occured (as shown at the side of this page).

Recent newcommers are Republic of Congo and the Cayman Islands.

To all those who’ve visited ,even if only once, thank you for coming.