We spent a couple of days in this beautiful part of South Africa. As always I was on the look out for my feathered friends and was lucky enough to pick up a couple of lifers This common endemic Karoo Prinia is a new tick for my list. Note the bold black breast streaking A Cape Sugarbird was the second new addition to my list. Here a juvenile bird posed obligingly for me on a Protea flower This locally common endemic has a conspicuous malar stripe and the juvenile retains the bright yellow gape for a year An African Black Oystercatcher patrols the rock pools on an incoming tide Here a Cape Robin-Chat pops out into the open before disappearing back into the undergrowth The Common Starling is an introduced species which is expanding its range in South Africa Whilst hoping for an adult Cape Sugarbird to put in an appearance I had to settle for a male Greater Double-collared Sunbird instead Male Red-winged Starling Female Red-winged Starling
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Mike Pope, my long time birding friend, and I were actually trying to locate the male lions when we stumbled upon this very obliging Owl which was resting up for the day on this exposed branch Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Check out the impressive talons to go with the pink eyelids
Black-backed Puffback Black-collared Barbet Crested Barbet Cape Glossy Starling adult Cape Glossy Starling juvenile Red-headed Weaver female or non-breeding male Jameson's Firefinch male Jameson's Firefinch female Red-billed Firefinch female Common Waxbill Cape White-eye Golden-breasted Bunting Green-winged Pytilia male Green-winged Pytlia female Yellow-throated Canary Streaky-headed Seedeater Blue Waxbill Yellow-throated Petronia showing both the diagnostic pale buff eyebrow and the yellow throat spot Southern Black Flycatcher
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