Striped Kingfisher on a hunting perch scanning the area Onto the ground and back up onto the perch with a meal Feathers puffed up and crest raised
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Yellow-billed Kite Not a sight often seen - A Hamerkp in a tree! Male Comb Duck (Knob-billed Duck) Female Comb Duck Lift off Rogues Gallery - Mullet, Collar and Notch
Young BCC male Lion Dark BCC male Cheetah Light BCC male Cheetah Male Steenbok Portrait Water Monitor blending in superbly Cheeky Lioness Bushpig 1 Bushpig 2 Two in the frame Thirsty chap Mullet Notch Collar
A Cape Bunting. A lifer for me and recorded on a trip to Mariepskop with my good friend Mike Pope Female Ostrich Portrait Crested Barbet Three-banded Plover Early season Yellow-billed Kite with leg ring A pair of Retz's Helmetshrikes White-crested Helmetshrike Ashy Flycatcher Juvenile Green Wood-Hoopoe
The resident pair of water Thick-knee at our dam are showing well at the moment Resting at the waters edge On the move Seen here confronting an approaching monitor lizard with a threat display by exposing its striking white underwing coverts A Spotted Thick-knee by way of comparison
Recently a male Pied Kingfisher has been visiting one of our dams and I have been watching him as he goes about his business. The first day he was posing nicely but not doing much fishing. The second day was heavily overcast and he then chose to start hauling them in. Luckily after a while he forgot I was there and I was able to watch and capture the action Lovely OOF background Right side profile Left side just as good Day two with blown out overcast sky and the fishing gets serious The Pied Kingfisher hovers more than any other kingfisher and in calm weather hovering precedes 20% of dives. It is often cited as the world's largest bird capable of sustained hovering in still air The plan comes together perfectly and he lands with a fish exactly where I had set up Catch being battered to death before ingestion Down the hatch Ready for more
Perched in a nearby dead tree Coming in to land Trying to intimidate other vultures present Establishing the pecking order Dominating the log from which access to the carcass was achieved Feeding on the carcass White-backed Vulture A 375 was present. It was ringed on Wild Rivers Nature Reserve on the 24th November 2020 by Dr Darren Pietersen and wing-tagged at the same time by Dr Lindy Thomson . This is the first re sighting that has been recorded since then
Tawny Eagle Yellow-billed Kite. My first image of this species this Spring Spotted Eagle-Owl on nest Dark Chanting Goshawk in soft evening light The Black-crowned Tchagra is a supreme skulker not often seen out in the open My first Common Greenshank of the season A few of the 20 odd Marabou Storks that were seen at one of our dams recently A Masai like pose A Southern White-crowned Shrike The Red-crested Korhaans are showing well at the moment Portrait of a female Red-crested Korhaan
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