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Lovely shots ans sightings, WTM!

There was a commotion outside earlier, lots of alarm calls from the Bulbuls, Robin-Chat, and Go Away birds, I went outside to see what was going on, and found a Little Sparrowhawk sunning itself on the top of my fever tree

Very nice BK I have not seen one of those in ages.

I had a great sighting of an African Harrier-Hawk on my way to work this morning - Flying between the buildings in Sunninghill

Laine's photos.

Ramkat and I went to WSBG this morning, and while I was walking along the river track that leads from the broken bridge towards the waterfall, I could have sworn that I heard a Camaroptera calling. You know how irritating their chuckchuckchuckchuck can be..... I'm not sure what else could be calling like that, it wasn't the Bar-Throated Apalis, which I saw and heard. This call was a repeated chuckchuck. I didn't manage to see the bird, so if anybody is going to WSBG in the next week or so, please listen along the river track, maybe somebody else will hear it too. It's out of range, and not on the birdlist. I won't add it to my SABAP list, because I didn't see it, but it's now bugging me. Or if anybody has a suggestion that will also help. We saw the Fairy, Ramkat did some impressive push-ups with his camera, I'm not sure whether he managed any decent shots, because the little thing doesn't sit still for a second. Nothing out of the ordinary otherwise.

As BK mentioned we did the WSBG Breakfast run today - Aloes are showing but flowers are not open yet, DC sunbirds are trying out the base flowers.

My Canon push ups paid off I got the best (only?) photo I have of a FFC.

IMG_9218-2.jpg by Boskat/Ramkat, on Flickr
Somebody please put that birdie on Ritalin

At one stage I locked on and let loose a few frames (Gotcha !!) only to see  that it was a Batis posing.

IMG_9199.jpg by Boskat/Ramkat, on Flickr

In this shot you can see the sunbird licking the stamens with his tongue.. Mmm 2012 looks like a good vintage this year ..

IMG_9107.jpg by Boskat/Ramkat, on Flickr

Cape Weavers always make a good photo with the matching colour scheme;

IMG_9077.jpg by Boskat/Ramkat, on Flickr

Last edited by Ramkat (01-07-2012 18:24:34)

Really great photos Laine, WTM, Jay and Ramkat!