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Thank you all once again for your kind comments and interaction. We toweled the seats and took to the car in our recently swam clothing and opened the windows for our last afternoon drive. Lovely and cool in the heat. Before we left camp we had no 214, red-winged starling and shortly thereafter 215,...

It was on this day that we heard that the spurwinged lapwing had been located on the far bank of the Levhuvu river opposite a lodge. :hmz: Now that we were safely well out of the area. :wall: But the lodge decided to make it available for access only if people booked a night's stay in the lodge. I f...

Something that has also happened to me is getting a flat tyre near lions. This is indeed where the aerosol foam is a winner. Pete Yes. And we decided to do it withing sight of the lions but not close, having scanned the area and keeping guard, because if you HAVE to get out of the car, you dont wan...

We headed for Letaba, and en route saw blue waxbill, sabota lark, red-backed shrike, tawny-flanked, prinia, lark-like bunting, white-browed scrub robin, red-faced cisticola (213), white backed vulture, wire-tailed swallow, pied kingfisher, lesser striped swallow, and this fellow and his brother loaf...

Union's End is one of my favourite places on earth. The solitude is deafening!

Thanks everyone for all your comments. Just a word on BBD (Big Birding Day). Joh and his 3 teammates, incuding Iz from earlier in the report, had planned their day meticulously, and in spite of that could only finish 3rd in their division, one down from last year, even though their tally was more th...

So after breakfast where a curious Cape wagtail came to investigate, we packed the car and headed for the gate, but on the way out, we were able to add scaly-feathered weaver, white-backed mousebird and African pipit to our list. The trip home was very interesting, and we saw a large group of white ...

RichardJ wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 8:16 am Ps I think your Speckled is a White-backed.

Indeed! How did I mistake the red legs......

Thank you everyone. Since we now had a full complement of tyres, we headed up the mountain for a last drive. It turned out to be a good decision as we saw a Verreaux's eagle soaring overhead. DSC_0124.JPG Followed by our first bokmakierie (80), speckled mousebird, DSC_0144.JPG jackal buzzard, DSC_01...

Just before we left the dam precinct it was time for the rock star. He attracted a real one so we stopped calling. Curious others that came to see were green winged pytillia, long-billed crombec, white-browed scrub robin, black-crowned tchagra, emerald-spotted wood-dove and there was a lilac-breaste...

Kgalagadi is different.

Even the vultures know the value of shade there.

Thanks everyone. Yeah! We have paid for tonight so we will stay! Here are some of my wife's pictures as promised. White necked raven in flight DSC_0027.JPG Some of the other local inhabihants : Ground squirrel DSC_0790.JPG Red hartebeest DSC_0810.JPG Mountain zebra DSC_0813.JPG Vervet monkey DSC_084...

Looking forward to this. I have done the trail.

I just love red necked falcons. most handsome birds.

Minor detail, your black shouldered kite is a Kalahari chicken, pale chanting goshawk.

Thanks a mil everyone. My wife is a strange beast (says he who has never claimed to be 'normal', whatever that is). :tongue: :roll: :twisted: As we were having our breakfast she told me that we had seen virtually everything here so we could go home today if we didn't have to collect a new tyre. She ...

@colbol The day is not yet over........... @FinMari While we were there 2 other vehicles arrived, but it is big enough not to get in each others way. Also, on our phones, we have an app from SABAP, which is run by the University of Cape Town. You record each bird as and when and where you see it, an...