As the water level recedes the tadpoles, frogs and small fish are being concentrated in an ever shrinking pool. This is providing a perfect feeding bonanza for several species Black Stork Hamerkop Marabou Stork Cape Wagtail. A new species for my RGR list Saddle-billed Stork female Woolly-necked Stork
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Woolly-necked Stork about to depart the perch for terra firma That is much better Brown-hooded Kingfisher male Brown-hooded Kingfisher female Southern Black Flycatcher White-browed Scrub-Robin White-bellied Sunbiird male Village Weaver female Lesser-masked Weaver female Red-headed Weaver non-breeding male or female Golden-breasted Bunting Cape Glossy Starling juvenile Cape Glossy Starling adult Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Blue Waxbill African Paradise-Flycatcher A rather grainy image of a Fiery-necked Nightjar
At dusk I came across this very relaxed female Leopard This one is known as the Leadwood female, she has a cub but it was not with here so that was a bit worrying
Hamerkop with catch I reconnected with the juvenile African Harrier-Hawk again What tbig eyes you have got...... Late season juvenile Violet-backed Starling. Note the brown eye and fleshy gape The Black-shouldered Kite is still showing well A pair of Cape White-eye Male Red-billed Firefinch Female Red-billed Firefinch A male Chinspot Batis warming up in the early morning sunlight The breeding pair of Blacksmith Lapwings have three chicks at one of our dams
African Harrier-Hawk juvenile in early morning light Dark Chanting Goshawk Grey-headed Bush-Shrike. Heard far more often than seen Namaqua Dove male. I haven't seen many of this species this season, so lovely to finally get an image An inquisitive Red-billed Oxpecker White-backed Vulture. Yellow tag A400. A new number to add to my list
Male Cheetah coalition resting up in a riverbed Collared male Collared male his brother very chilled I followed this female Leopard whilst she went about her business This female, known as Mbilu, has quite a large home range and has been observed on three neighbouring properties which shows the ability of Leopards to navigate their way through electrified boundary fences without a problem
I came across a party of four Hamerkops at a small dam, and was able to sit and watch them as they went about their business. Feeding, head scratching, preening and resting were actions observed Hamerkop Hamerkops, unlike Herons and Storks are known to sit down across a branch
I was scanning the shoreline at the main dam to see if there was anything of interest. The Pair of Thick-knees were resting up, one of the Blacksmith Lapwings was sitting on eggs, the other keeping watch nearby, and then there was this mystery bird calling. The calling continued as I scanned all the possible places a bird may be perched, - dead trees in the dam, tree line on the other side of the wall, all to no avail. Still the whistling call continued. Eventually I scanned a small bush on the shoreline and sitting quietly in the shade was the Pied Wagtail, singing away merrily. I sat and waited a while and then it came out into the open to continue feeding along the shoreline African Pied Wagtail resting up in the shade feeding along the shoreline
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