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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!!!

Toko wrote:Great captures of the BSK, steamtrainfan

The butterfly is Danaus chrysippus, African Monarch

Thanks very much Toko and also for the butterfly ID.

nan wrote:beautiful capture of the BSK and what about the Lezard, Toko

Thanks nan. I think it was a snake but it could have been a lizard.

Amoli wrote:The cuckoos are beautiful STF... I will stay clear of the BSK and the snake..

Thanks Amoli. Not to worry that BSK and snake were very far away.

Lisbeth wrote:You saw quite a lot of black-shouldered kites - my favorite small raptor

We also the BSK with those orange eyes that stare at one.

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!!!

Hey B.B. . It is so great to hear from you again. Hope you had a great holiday.

Thanks for the lovely comments. You are right we did see a wide variety of birds.

Lovely sightings and pics!!

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.



Unknown helmeted-white.eye-fluffball

nice to see a crab
"heard" the vibrations

nan wrote: "heard" the vibrations

amazing Nan - and twice it moved over the edge through an opening, and hang there until the vehicle had passed.
I have not seen the dam this full before and just maybe the crab is waiting for the rushing waters to die down.

Nice Jackal sighting Amoli!

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.

Mel wrote:Those crabs - where do the come from... I always only associate them with the coast, but not inland.

Crabs are quite common inland near to water.. in South Africa.

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.

Lovely jackal sighting!! I like the fluffball!