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Peter Connan

Thank you very much @TonyQ wnd @Galana.

 

 

Fred, it seems it might be coming to an end...

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141) Ant-eating Chat

 

Swartpiek Myrmecocichla formicivora

 

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7 July, Rietvlei

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142) Common Myna

 

Indiese Spreeu Acridotheres tristis

 

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Vulpro (near Hartebeespoort), 20 July

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143) White Stork

 

Witooievaar Ciconia ciconia

 

This one was interesting, as they are supposed to be in Europe now. This bird seemed young, but we could not really see any sign of injuries.

 

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20 July, Vulpro

 

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144) White-backed Vulture

 

Witrugaasvoël Gyps africanus

 

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20 July, Vulpro

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145) Cape Vulture

 

Kransaasvoël Gyps coprotheres

 

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20 July, Vulpro

 

And with that I have, for the first time since starting this thread, run out of birds to post.

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Alex Rogers

What an extraordinary set of photos - have just had a very pleasant hour of trawling through them. Thanks for sharing them here. 

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Peter Connan

Thank you very much @Alex Rogers

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16 hours ago, Peter Connan said:

This one was interesting, as they are supposed to be in Europe now.

Probably booked on Air Namibia and the flight was cancelled.:)

 

Shame the run is now coming to an end. Hope you are wrong.  There are some lovely photos there.

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Agree on the beautiful vulture shots! You posted the Cape Vulture as #145, but the bird carries a rectification. Incredible how they actively participate in this thread ;)

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Peter Connan

Thank you very much @Galana, @Towlersonsafari and @PeterHG.

 

:D Peter! 

 

Fred, it's the end of the stock on hand, but definitely not the end of the year!

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The new engine in the old Patrol did not scare away too many birds, @Peter Connan! And if you were taking photos from inside the car, well, wow and more wow. The Lazy Year is entering into its Less Lazy Year stage :rolleyes:.

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Thank you very much @xelas.

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Dave Williams
On 8/3/2019 at 6:12 PM, xelas said:

The Lazy Year is entering into its Less Lazy Year stage :rolleyes:.

 

My thoughts exactly!!

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  • 2 weeks later...

Beautiful photos Peter! I think I read on the Robert´s App that a few Storks stay all year in SA?

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Peter Connan

Thank you very much @michael-ibk.

 

I read the same, but I felt there was an inference that the cause was usually illness or unfitness?

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Who knows - a couple of perfectly healthy Storks stay the Winter in Austria these days so why not the other way around as well?

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146) African Harrier-hawk

 

Every year around the end of winter, a few groups of 4x4 enthusiasts do what is known locally as "The River Trip". Basically, there are a couple of (at that time of year) dry river beds lying in the trust lands between the town of Giyani and the Kruger National Park. This means that they don't really belong to anybody, and aren't fenced. As a result, they are pretty badly exploited, primarily for building sand. Thus, a few 4x4's driving around in them aren't really going to have any ecological impact. 

We did it in early August and although the focus of the trip is camping and 4x4ing, I do take the long lens along every time. Some groups only do parts of the route (typically the easier bits), but we do the whole thing. We enter either the Molototsi or the Klein Letaba as close to the town if Giyani as is feasible, and then drive down that to basically as close to the Western fence of the Kruger National Park as possible. There we transfer to the other one, and then we drive up that one to very nearly where we started. This takes basically 4 days, and one night is spent right next to the Kruger. This year we even had an elephant visiting us in our camp at night (the fence is pretty porous in these parts, and there is lots of evidence of elephant meandering around outside the park).

 

While I didn't get a picture of that, I did get some birds for the Big Year...

 

Kaalwangvalk Polyboroides typus

 

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10 August, Molototsi River

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147) Brown Snake-eagle

 

Bruinslangarend Circaetus cinereus

 

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10 August, Klein Letaba River

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148) Emerald-spotted Wood Dove

 

Groenvlekduifie Turtur chalcospilos

 

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9 August, Molototsi River

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149) African Green Pigeon

 

Papegaaiduif Treron calva

 

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10 August, Klein Letaba River

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Some beautiful additions, Peter. Wonderful flight shots of the Green Pigeon. Sounds like it was a good trip!

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