PC's slightly less lazy year.

[Tdgraves]

Welcome back Peter. I don’t think I have seen an acacia pied barbet outside of the Northern Cape, so we’ll done!

[Peter Connan]

Thank you very much @Tdgraves. Now that you mention it, I don't think I have either. This was just one very fleeting glimpse. I think it was gone before I'd figured out what it was.

[Peter Connan]

55) Bateleur

9 January

 

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

56) Gabar Goshawk (juvenile)

10 January

 

 

 

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

57) Green Wood-Hoopoe

10 January

 

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

58) Natal Francolin

10 January

 

 

 

Weirdly, I never managed a shot of the Crested Francolin.

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

59) Brown-crowned Tchagra

10 January

 

 

 

This ID is probably a bit suspect as I never saw the crown. ID is based on behaviour, but I am by no means an expert on that.

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[PeterHG]

Excellent flight shots of the Tchagra, Peter! Might your Greater Kestrel perhaps be a juvenile Gabar Goshawk? In any case, beautiful photos of the raptor.

Edited January 30, 2023 by PeterHG

[Tdgraves]

Agree with tchagra. Is the raptor a juvenile African goshawk?

[Galana]

The Tchagra is fine with me too but I share the reservations about the Kestrel. I think too many tail bars for African G and a juv Gabar would fit better. However I am not 100% on that either.

[Peter Connan]

My apologies for the interruption.

Been rather busy and with load-shedding at inopportune times.

 

Thanks to @PeterHG, @Tdgraves and @Galanafor the comments and the correction.

 

60) African Fisheagle

10 January

 

 

 

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

61) Arrow-marked Babbler

10 January

 

 

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

62) Magpie Shrike

5 & 10 January

 

Not entirely sure whether this is a worm or a very small snake?

 

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

63) Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver

 

 

Playing with a Magpie Shrike's tail:

 

 

 

Lots of hyphens and the avian member of the "little five". Some of which are far more elusive than any of the big five. 

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

64) African Palm Swift

10 January

 

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

65) Crested Barbet

10 January

 

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

66) Red-billed Oxpecker

1 & 10 January.

 

 

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

67) Great Spotted Cuckoo

12 Janaury

 

 

Really struggled to get a clear shot of these. There were two of them hiding carefully in the same tree.

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

68) Red-crested Korhaan

10 January

 

 

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

69) Burchell's Coucal

4 & 5 January

 

 

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

70) African Firefinch

4 & 9 January

 

 

 

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

71) White-backed Vulture

9 January

 

 

 

 

Seldom is the white back this evident (so I really hope this ID is correct).

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

73) Hooded Vulture

9 January

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

73) White-fronted Bee-Eater

8 January

 

 

 

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan

[Peter Connan]

74) European Bee-eater

8 January

 

 

 

Edited February 6, 2023 by Peter Connan