Rietvlei Nature Reserve through Greenies' Eyes

[BluTuna]

My next visit to Rietvlei was on New Year's Eve. Taking advantage of the traditional afternoon off work.

This time I was joined by one of my colleagues who's also an AW member - balamohan.

As usual, we started at Coot's Corner.

In the reeds, a Red Bishop male


and Female?


And as usual a Darter.





We drove around for a while and found...

A Pied Starling with a late lunch.


Zebras.



And a Pintailed Wydah who was trying to impress a female.

[Toko]

That's a smiling Zebra Love the Darter

Female Bishop, may be very well the wife of the other one

[Flutterby]

Stunning pics of the whydah.

[Pumbaa]

Love your whydah shots, BluTuna

and for sure all the others are breathtaking too

[nan]

wow the Whydah... the last one seems to be a ballerina
what elegance

[Lisbeth]

The last pic is the best of them all

[Bushcraft]

Some brilliant pics

[daves]

Love the pictures, but unfortunately the pink pom-pom is seriously taking over.

[BluTuna]

Thanks for the comments everyone, it's been a bit of a trying time for me and my family over the past few weeks but it's time to get back to this and the other topics I've been contributing to.

Here's the next part of this report...

[BluTuna]

We got to the Island View Hide where there were plenty of subjects.

Whitebreasted Cormorant.


A Reed Cormorant feeding its chick.


But it looked like the parent was trying to eat the chick.



Another Reed Cormorant hanging itself out to dry.


Also around was a Pied Kingfisher


A Common Moorhen.



And lots of Whiskered Terns.