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Super sightings with good light. Love the bokkie, duiker.

Wonder what the carcas was? It does look as large as one of the bigger buck.

Great couple of reports with some nice photos Amoli & STF.

Your LBJ looks like a Lesser Swamp Warbler STF.

Super pics everyone

Flutterby and Amoli - Thank you for your lovely comments.

Dewi wrote:Your LBJ looks like a Lesser Swamp Warbler STF.

Thanks very much for the LBJ ID Dewi. I salute you on being able to ID all the LBJ's and appreciate your letting me know.

Amoli wrote: Super sightings with good light. Love the bokkie, duiker.

Wonder what the carcas was? It does look as large as one of the bigger buck.

Thanks very much Amoli. We seem to think that it is an eland carcass.

One of the ladies on Friends of The Rietvlei on Facebook is going to check it out tomorrow morning.

The last couple of photos for 16 October 2013.

Our best sighting of eland to date.




Long-tailed paradise-whydah.


Northern black korhaan.




A female ignoramus.


Heading back to where the male ignoramus was waiting.


When Joan saw these two at the restaurant she mentioned to them that she had been a bit far into the bush and that there were rhino nearby. He replied that she was a guide to which Joan replied that that does not make any difference as one cannot get out of your car.

Just to the left of the female in the top photo were the two rhino in the following photos.




A very handsome ostrich in full breeding colours.


A little egret fluffing his feathers.


Anyone want to surf. Cattle egret.


Two rhino having a bit of a tussle over feed.


Pin-tailed whydah at Fern Hide.


That's all folks.

I like the fluffy Little Egret
Rhinos, Elands of course with Cattle Egrets
the noisy Korhaan -O
and people... in search of... snake maybe

nan wrote:and people... in search of... snake maybe

Wish they had got bitten by one.

Great pics stf!!

Flutterby wrote:Great pics stf!!

Thanks very much Flutterby.