Last week I went on a walk in the Koppies near my house and despite the cold weather and without looking too hard I found some interesting specimens.
First a habitat shot: note the kraal, these are very old structures and are estimated to have been erected by Sotho-Tsawana pastoral people who inhabited the area around 1300. The koppies are full of them. There must have been a lot of people living up there. These Koppies were also where Nongoloza had a hide out in the early days of Johannesburg.
Flipping some rocks I came across this scorpion, can anyone help me identify it? I think it is a Opistophthalmus species.
I also came across this little Leptotyphlops, I am not sure which species it is, but I'm guessing it is Peter's Thread Snake.
I also managed to photograph this Ground Agama (Agama aculeata) or is it A. atra?, they are very skittish up there,
The last find was this little Transvaal Gecko (Pachydactylus-affinis),