Peter's Big Year 2017

[PeterHG]

319. Hooded Vulture. Kruger NP, November

 

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320. African Openbill. Kruger NP, November

 

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321. Woolly-necked Stork. Kruger NP, November

 

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322. Southern Ground Hornbill. Kruger NP, November

 

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323. Chinspot Batis. Kruger NP, November. Beautiful little bird, but hard to take a picture of, as it constantly moves from twig to twig

 

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324. Harlequin Quail. Kruger NP, November. A lifer for me, so very happy to at least get a shot of it.

 

[PeterHG]

325. Wattled Starling. Kruger NP, November. 

 

[Tdgraves]

Lovely quail @PeterHG i’ve never seen one, mind telling where you spotted it?

[TonyQ]

Beautiful additions to your thread - the Batis is indeed lovelu.

[Galana]

Great Harlequin. Hard enough to see let alone photograph. Right place right time! Well done.

[PeterHG]

4 hours ago, Tdgraves said:

Lovely quail @PeterHG i’ve never seen one, mind telling where you spotted it?

Thanks, @Tdgraves, it was on the s90 driving north from Satara to Olifants.

[Peter Connan]

Wow on the quail!

 

Can you see what that ground Hornbill has caught? Spider or Roman?

[PeterHG]

3 hours ago, Peter Connan said:

Wow on the quail!

 

Can you see what that ground Hornbill has caught? Spider or Roman?

Thanks, Peter. I’m afraid there’s too much grass caught together with the prey, to decide what it was, even when zooming in on the original

[Galana]

6 hours ago, Peter Connan said:

Can you see what that ground Hornbill has caught? Spider or Roman?

 

Roman???

Looks like a Grasshopper/Locust/Scorpion type thing to me.

[PeterHG]

326. Southern Red Bishop. Namibia February. When I was browsing through the (rather poor) Red Bishop shots of the Kruger trip I realized that I had forgotten this on earlier this year. And I need every bird...;)

 

[PeterHG]

327. Red-billed Quelea. Kruger NP, November

 

[PeterHG]

328. Marabou Stork. Kruger NP, November. The only one of the trip

 

[PeterHG]

329. Greenshank. Kruger NP, November.

 

[PeterHG]

330. Green-backed (Striated) Heron. Kruger NP. Taken from Lake Panic hide

 

[PeterHG]

A double, but I'd never seen one with a chick. Water Thick-knee, also Lake Panic Hide

 

[PeterHG]

331. White-faced Whistling Duck. Kruger NP, November

 

[PeterHG]

332. Lesser Masked Weaver. Kruger NP.

 

 

Busy gathering nest material

 

[Dave Williams]

You have been busy too Peter and all quality shots to boot.

[PeterHG]

My Pearl-spotted Owlet (#295) is in fact an African Barred Owlet (thank you @Galana, for pointing this out). Also a lifer and it does not change the number, but to keep the records straight.....

[Galana]

Happy to help where I can. Sorry I missed it when posted and only picked it up on your Kruger report.

You will get a Pearl spotted next time. They come when whistled. fwee-Fwee-FWEE rising in pitch and volume. the bonus is that while calling and waiting for him/her to arrive you will get mobbed by every Apalis, Sunbird, Batis and Warbler so keep that camera handy.