My wishlist was –
A leopard – of course
A good pic of a violet-eared waxbill
And of a Diderick cuckoo.
For lifers I only wished for a
Piet my vrou
And Jacobin’s cuckoo.
....I thought this was easy and manageable.
Our first sighting were these Marabou storks. We loved watching them and took quite a lot of pictures.

It was only when we moved on that we saw the party was actually on the other side of the Berg….

This large and powerful bird eats mainly carrion, scraps and faeces but will opportunistically eat almost any animal matter it can swallow. It occasionally eats other birds including quelea nestlings, pigeons, doves, pelican and cormorant chicks, and even flamingos. During the breeding season, adults scale back on carrion and take mostly small, live prey since nestlings need this kind of food to survive. Common prey at this time may consist of fish, frogs, insects, eggs, small mammals and reptiles such as crocodile hatchlings and eggs
Along the way we found this African Grey Hornbill hiding..
