Wow stf, great stuff!
Looks like it was a really great day!! Plus you had such a variety of birds and a kill even - very lucky indeed!!!
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Thanks very much Toko and also for the butterfly ID.Toko wrote:Great captures of the BSK, steamtrainfan
The butterfly is Danaus chrysippus, African Monarch
Thanks nan. I think it was a snake but it could have been a lizard.nan wrote:beautiful capture of the BSK and what about the Lezard, Toko
Thanks Amoli. Not to worry that BSK and snake were very far away.Amoli wrote:The cuckoos are beautiful STF... I will stay clear of the BSK and the snake..
We also the BSK with those orange eyes that stare at one.Lisbeth wrote:You saw quite a lot of black-shouldered kites - my favorite small raptor
Hey B.B. . It is so great to hear from you again. Hope you had a great holiday.Bush Brat wrote:Wow stf, great stuff!
Looks like it was a really great day!! Plus you had such a variety of birds and a kill even - very lucky indeed!!!
Thanks for the lovely comments. You are right we did see a wide variety of birds.
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Some good sightings I saw today .....
While giving my attention to a Long-tailed Widowbird, I picked up a movement in my rear view mirror.
Four young Black backed Jackal and they had no fear of the car.
A Crab trying to cross the road, and would suddenly move back the wall - only for me to realise he heard a car coming long before me.
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While giving my attention to a Long-tailed Widowbird, I picked up a movement in my rear view mirror.
Four young Black backed Jackal and they had no fear of the car.
A Crab trying to cross the road, and would suddenly move back the wall - only for me to realise he heard a car coming long before me.
Unknown helmeted-white.eye-fluffball
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nice to see a crab
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amazing Nan - and twice it moved over the edge through an opening, and hang there until the vehicle had passed.nan wrote: "heard" the vibrations
I have not seen the dam this full before and just maybe the crab is waiting for the rushing waters to die down.
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Those crabs - where do the come from... I always only associate them with the coast, but not inland.
First flying cheetah in KNP, now you in Rietvlei reporting having seem them. Pretty special sighting, methinks.
First flying cheetah in KNP, now you in Rietvlei reporting having seem them. Pretty special sighting, methinks.
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Crabs are quite common inland near to water.. in South Africa.Mel wrote:Those crabs - where do the come from... I always only associate them with the coast, but not inland.
I remember during my high school years I set one in resin ( ) and it was the size of a side-plate. (It was a dead one though)
Sure Toko would give a much better explanation of our freshwater crabs.
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