PC's slightly less lazy year.

[PeterHG]

Thanks Peter, i could understand quite a bit of the ‘Afrikaans’ part, though certainly not all. The  English translation was really funny as many words would also be the literal translation of Dutch equivalents.

[Peter Connan]

Thanks Peter

Yes, it is quite funny if one understands enough of it.

Some of these terms are actually fairly common amongst the Afrikaans population, at least the older ones. Bones in the light, for example, was something my grandfather was very fond of saying, as was calling a shotgun a double-walk hail gun. He also called Grasshoppers "jumping cocks" (which is one I think the joke missed out on?).

 

He knew both languages very well having grown up (and later spending most of his working life) in very Afrikaans-orientated communities but also having spent about a decade studying in England, and really delighted in this type of humour.

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[PeterHG]

5 hours ago, Peter Connan said:

Some of these terms are actually fairly common amongst the Afrikaans population, at least the older ones.

Interesting! I suppose that is the effect of a living in a bilingual nation. In my younger days (I am talking way back here.... :)) I used to write and perform satirical songs and sketches and in one of them I made fun of the way Dutch politicians used and pronounced the English language in their speeches. This also involved many literal translations and was always good for a lot of laughs. Even from the victims, I must give them that...

[michael-ibk]

Great additions Peter, especially your BIF (like the Sparrowhawk). Congrats on your lifer too - is YB Longclaw generally uncommon in your area?

[Peter Connan]

Thanks @michael-ibk

I am outside their distribution, so very uncommon here.

And I haven't really gone anywhere with lots of their preferred habitat, because it's not my preferred habitat.

 

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121) African Darter

 

 

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122) Long-tailed Widowbird

 

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124) Glossy Ibis

 

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125) Hadeda Ibis

 

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126) Sacred Ibis

 

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127) Black-shouldered Kite

 

 

With Mouse

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128) African Wattled Lapwing

 

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129) Little Grebe

 

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130) Cape Longclaw

 

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131) Common Moorhen

 

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132) Common Myna

 

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133 ) Namaqua Dove

 

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134) Black-chested Prinia

 

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135) Cape Robin-chat

 

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136) Helmeted Guineafowl

 

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137) African Stonechat

Bird of the day.

 

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138) Common Ostrich

 

 

 

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139) White-breasted Cormaorant

 

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140) White-throated Swallow

 

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And that concludes Rietvlei with @Tdgraves

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On the weekend of the 23rd and 24th September, we went back to Platbank

 

141) Bar-throated Apalis

 

 

24 September