Nesting Secretary birds. They’re named for the feathers looking like pens stuck behind a secretary’s ear… or are they?
Nesting Lappet-faced vultures. These were both the same morning on the S37, and the next day neither of them were in the nests.
One of many Kori Bustards we saw. You normally see one on its own, maybe another one a few hundred meters away.
Martial Eagle.
Southern Ground Hornbill are supposed to be kind of scarce, there are signs up at the Parks Offices that they would welcome reports of the whereabouts of these birds (we leave that to people who know what they are doing, we’re not fluent in Bird yet).
But we pretty much always see them, and mostly in groups (we saw a solitary one only once, and we saw… I think 17 in total this time). This was a group of four close to Kumana dam.
Also close to Kumana dam, we found this Bateleur feeding on… something. Maybe a jackal.
Fish Eagles remain stunning.
Verreaux’s Eagle Owl close to Transport Dam.
Nesting Idunno, maybe Wahlberg’s Eagle, maybe Tawny, quite far away.
Ground Hornbill, up a tree.
Fish Eagles seen from the deck at Lower Sabie. 600mm lens zoomed all the way in. We need better glass…