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Richprins wrote:Yoh...flowers all over!

Nice, Flutts!

It think they have had plenty of rain there.

Alf wrote:We have those purple flowers all over centurion at the moment

They are lovely!

Pumbaa wrote:How lovely to live that close, Flutterby,

and on top you saw a lot and got some magnificent shots Love the grasshoppers

Thanks Pumbaa, yes we are lucky that we can just pop in anytime.

ExFmem wrote: For the grasshoppers! Gorgeous. Lis beat me to posting them for Animal of the Month Nomination, but glad they are there. Very nice.

Thanks ExFem.

Just before Otter Bridge was a lone buffalo.



On the bridge I saw a Little Egret fishing, but as there was traffic I couldn't stop too long.





Cattle Egrets and Egyptian Goose



Pin-tailed Whydah



While parked near the bridge I saw Moggiedog stopped on the other side photographing something. I waited for them and they excitedly told me they had just seen 4 otters! After a brief chat they moved off and I decided to turn around to see if I could spot the otters. As I was turning I saw them run across the road behind me. This was the only pic I managed to get.



A Malachite Kingfisher was just too far away for a decent shot.



I then headed to Island View Bird Hide where I found a lifer - Whiskered Tern.



Adult and juvenile.

I love your whiskered tern, I wonder if it was such one, I got this morning Still have to download the pics

A malachite kingfisher is always great, whatever the quality of the pic

and you did get a photo of the otter

Super terns!

Thanks Lis and Puff!

The terns were very obliging subjects so I couldn't resist a few more pics.









This darter was having a lot of fun repeatedly throwing the stick in the air and catching it.



A White-throated Swallow



Ostrich



Fatboy!



Catching some rays.



A Green-backed Heron



Till next time.

These tern photos are even better than the first series!

Flutterby wrote:
This darter was having a lot of fun repeatedly throwing the stick in the air and catching it.

Maybe trying hard it would become a fish

I love the last tern pic

The ostrich is looking quite strange

You had a lot of very nice encounters for an only afternoon and thank you for sharing them

These pink flowers are aliens: Pompom weed Campuloclinium macrocephalum a Category 1 invasive alien species that spreads rampantly through Gauteng grasslands.


Cool grasshopper photo!

I though terns were seabirds?

Very good camera going through its paces, Flutts!

Death to the pompoms!