Penultimate Birding Weekend

Last Sunday Grant and went out birding on the mine for what we thought was the last birding weekend until we return from our leave in South Africa. (We were due to fly out home this weekend) However, on Monday, the plant manager on Grant's team, had a crisis at home in South Africa so he had to fly out. Grant's leave was postponed for a week.

Nevertheless, we had a wonderful day of birding and spotted several juvenile birds which are always difficult to identify. I'll post about them as soon as I've had a positive ID on these.

Meanwhile I'm posting the others we spotted and which I managed to photograph.

 An African Grey Hornbill which was calling to a [prospective] mate which I could hear somewhere behind me in the bush as I took these photos

 Here it stopped and listened to the answering call of the prospective mate 

 Black-headed Heron

 Fischer's Sparrowlark - a lifer for me and Grant

Glossy Ibis Juvenile

Great White Pelican

 Long-tailed Cormorant Juvenile

Red-knobbed Coot 

I always photograph these Red-knobbed Coots when at the dam, yet on Sunday I managed to snap one angling for it's lunch! 

Gotcha!

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