Pedro´s Rookie Year

[pedro maia]

Just a small intermezzo for these flamingos with today´s sunrise colours:

 

[PeterHG]

What a beautiful sunset photo, @pedro maia !

[TonyQ]

Beautiful flamingo sunset!

[pedro maia]

Thanks @PeterHG and @TonyQ, even if it Is a sunrise .

[TonyQ]

@pedro maia

We once spoke to a filmmaker who said all of his best sunsets were filmed at sunrise !

[pedro maia]

Back to BY mode...

 

#166/BT 7, 17/8, Lark-like Bunting, Mashatu

 

Next one was taken at the photo hide where, like past year, we went one morning instead of the game drive

 

Edited August 29, 2019 by pedro maia

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#167/BT 8, 19/8, Golden-breasted Bunting, Mashatu

 

 

Also taken at the photo hide

Edited August 29, 2019 by pedro maia

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#168/BT 9, 19/8, Cinnamon-breasted Bunting, Mashatu

 

Another one from the photo hide

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#169/BT 10, 17/8, Red-billed Hornbill, Mashatu

 

 

Looks like it´s going to drop a bomb somewhere

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#170/BT 11, 17/8, White-fronted Bee Eater, Mashatu

 

 

Tried a few times to catch one in flight but wasn´t really successful

 

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#171/BT 12, 17/8, Meyer´s Parrot, Mashatu

 

First picture was taken inside the tent camp with lots of twigs around the bird, next one was from the photo hide, it´s only a pity that his colours are very similar to the mud, but still I like the picture.

 

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#172/BT 13, 17/8, Verreaux´s Eagle Owl, Mashatu

 

 

A great sighting in the final moments of our first game drive, great spotting by our tracker, it was a bit far from the car so I was surprised to get this shots with the bridge camera.

 

[Zim Girl]

The second Meyer's parrot picture is quite lovely with the muted colours and nice reflection.

[Galana]

BeeEaters always get my vote and I like middle pose. Nice capture of the Verreaux's Owl. You even caught the pink eyelids.

I don't think your first shot is of a Lark like Bunting. The waterhole hide one maybe as it appears in the Cinnamon breasted photo too.

So who is the stranger in 166? Clue. It is NOT a Bunting or a Sparrow or any of those difficult Widow/Whydah lot females.

[pedro maia]

37 minutes ago, Galana said:

BeeEaters always get my vote and I like middle pose. Nice capture of the Verreaux's Owl. You even caught the pink eyelids.

I don't think your first shot is of a Lark like Bunting. The waterhole hide one maybe as it appears in the Cinnamon breasted photo too.

So who is the stranger in 166? Clue. It is NOT a Bunting or a Sparrow or any of those difficult Widow/Whydah lot females.

 

That means I have homework to do on that 166...

[pedro maia]

The only possibility that occurs to me for 166 1st photo is a juvenile Red-billed Quelea, although the bill is a bit different, here´s another picture:

 

 

And this one I think there´s no doubt that it is a Lark-like Bunting:

 

[Galana]

Not a Quelea.

2nd is a LLBunting with pinkish legs.

Your target has grey legs.

Here is one I prepared earlier...

[pedro maia]

56 minutes ago, Galana said:

Not a Quelea.

2nd is a LLBunting with pinkish legs.

Your target has grey legs.

Here is one I prepared earlier...

 

Still dom’t know,but it will have to be tomorrow, I want to wake up early to try to find a few more new birds here at the Algarve.

[Alex Rogers]

Some nice photos Pedro, and I'm jealous of you being in Africa :-) I see you also shoot on a bridge camera - what do you use? 

[Galana]

9 hours ago, pedro maia said:

I want to wake up early to try to find a few more new birds here at the Algarve.

Well maybe you may see its close relative that occurs in Iberia. Good luck.

[pedro maia]

7 hours ago, Alex Rogers said:

Some nice photos Pedro, and I'm jealous of you being in Africa :-) I see you also shoot on a bridge camera - what do you use? 

 

Thanks Alex but I´m not in Africa anymore, it was a super short trip, now I´m in the Algarve, in the South of Portugal, ending my vacations.

 

The bridge camera I have is a Canon PowerShot SX540 HS, just a simple one.

[pedro maia]

2 hours ago, Galana said:

Well maybe you may see its close relative that occurs in Iberia. Good luck.

 

You ´re cruel, I´ll get later, I have to .

[pedro maia]

While I try to solve the 166 ID here goes another batch:

 

#173/BT 15, 18/8, Crested Barbet, Mashatu

 

Beautiful bird but we didn´t get to see another one.

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#174/BT 15, 18/8, Kori Bustard, Mashatu

 

The national bird from Botswana, last year in September we saw quite a few so when we saw one during the transfer from the border to tent camp I didn´t bother to take photo, this was the second one we saw and I took the "safety photo" and I´m glad I did it because it was the last one we saw.

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#175/BT 16, 18/8, Crimson-breasted Shrike, Mashatu

 

Nice colourful bird but just didn´t stay still so it wasn´t easy to get a sharp picture