On this page I am posting photo's of birds and wandering wildlife which we've seen in our valley on this page.
S'funny - I've never been a twitcher, but we have seen such a variety of birdlife that it is just calling out to me to record whatever I can.
Where possible I will identify them using Robert's Birds of Southern Africa, but if I get it wrong, or there is no name, and you know what it is, please feel free to leave a comment and let me know :)
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1 Bully Canary (I didn't know there were wild canaries LOL) |
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2 Cape Wagtail |
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3 Golden weaver |
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The weaver obviously enjoyed the sugar water - it started making a nest on the chain supporting the sugar water bottle |
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4 Swamp Boubou |
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5 Unidentified |
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6 Fallow deer |
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7 A ringed Feral Pigeon taking cover on RMan's
braai during a very welcome rain shower |
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8 Blackheaded heron |
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9 Cape Bulbul |
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10 House Sparrow (male) |
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11 Greater Doublecollared Sunbird |
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12 House Sparrow (female) |
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13 Malachite Sunbird |
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14 Swamp Boubou - can it be? They shouldn't be down this far south. Alternatively it is a Tropical Boubou, but it also shouldn't be here |
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15 Forktailed Drongo |
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15 Forktailed Drongo |
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16 Rock Pigeon |
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The Rock Pigeon flew into our gas storage area and made a nest on top of a coil of steel wire. It has diligently sat on that nest, with us walking passed at all times of the day, until it's young hatched this morning (19/10/2014) |
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17 Glowing insect - on the right it created just enough light to photograph a blur without the flash. |
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18 Hadeda Ibis |
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19 Hoopoe |
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20 Black Kite - spotted on our grape vine support posts and on top of our garden umbrella |
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21 Bearded Robin |
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22 Secretary Bird |
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23 Baboon |
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Look at the claws on this little tortoise (+/- 15cms long) |
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24 Baby & adult tortoise |
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26 Hares before dawn and early morning |
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27 Frog |
28 Wagtail nest with eggs
(spotted by RMan when he was mowing the grass)
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29 Button spider lurking in my old compost maker |
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30 Bullfrog or terrapin? |
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31 Terrapin catching some warmth on the dam wall |
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32 Duberria lutrix (Common South African slug-eater)
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33 Goshawk |
(Baby Goshawk)
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34 Cape Cobra (hiding by our LP gas cylinders) |
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36 Malachite Sunbird (male) |
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37 Olive Woodpecker (female) |
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38 Olive Woodpecker (male) |
39 Raucous Toad, Ranger's Toad, Kei Road Toad Lawaaipadda
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40 Evidence of Rooikat in our garden - territory marking under our pomegranate tree |
54 goshawk or falcon? - still trying to establish
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