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Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:51 pm**

Aha!

What's the real name for "hobby"?

So the bee-eaters don't nest down here...just come to pillage, so to speak?

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:14 pm**

Eurasian Hobby Falco Subbuteo

The table top football game Subbuteo was named after this bird as the inventor was a birder. $\O$

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subbuteo

(Sorry Nan, I'm hijacking your thread here

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Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:16 pm**

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:30 pm**

Dewi wrote:The Hobby does, all down the East and South coast and in Kruger RP. You get the vulpinus sub-species of our Common Buzzard - Steppe Buzzard and Western Marsh Harrier is a rarer visitor to the North-East of SA. $\O$

Several species of duck nest in tree holes. $\O$ Hope Nan lets us know which species this one is and keeps an eye on progress. $\O$

thanks for the explanations $\O$
I will have an eye on this hole

Bee-Eater... plunderer

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:33 pm**

what is this link $0*\$
you are to early... next month

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 9:07 pm**

French version for you Nan.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subbuteo

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 9:54 pm**

Great to have the European be eaters back, nan

the rest of your birdies is more than stunning as well $O/\$ $O/\$ $O/\$

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2014 10:12 am**

Bee-eaters! $O\/$ $O\/$ $O\/$ I know we got some in the neighbourhood (which is about 30 km away

)
but I have yet to find them. The birders who saw them are very secretive about their location. $0*\$

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2014 4:51 pm**

Mel wrote:Bee-eaters! $O\/$ $O\/$ $O\/$ I know we got some in the neighbourhood (which is about 30 km away )
but I have yet to find them. The birders who saw them are very secretive about their location. $0*\$

they are often in an old stone-pit (carrière)

Pumbaa wrote:Great to have the European be eaters back, nan

the rest of your birdies is more than stunning as well $O/\$ $O/\$ $O/\$

yes it's really nice to see these birds again... and I hope again next year $\O$

thank you

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2014 5:33 pm**

What a great morning, Nan! wonderful to see the bee-eaters

I have seen a mallard nesting on a roof $0*\$

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