Pelican petting in St James’ Park
I was amazed to come across these scenes in St James’ Park, but apparently it’s quite common. Currently there are three resident pelicans, happily at ease with the visitors who take a keen interest...
View ArticleBeach traditions.
On Boxing Day tens of thousands of people head to the beaches around the Cape Peninsula and this year it was a hot, sizzling kind of day. Colourful scenes were cast, revelers enjoying the day. A...
View ArticleFluffy
Transforming – fluff into a fine cape of feathers. Pale eyes which will turn orange into adulthood. The parent bird casts a watchful eye over the fledged chick from a nearby tree. Note the orange...
View ArticleCape Sugarbird dine on summer nectar.
At this time of the year we see quite a lot of the Cape Sugarbirds. During the breeding and nesting season, from March to August they’re otherwise engaged, but now they’re out in number, dining at...
View ArticleHomes with a Difference: Bird Box Condos
Two hundred and fifty bespoke boxes for birds and bugs form a sculptural installation called “The Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven”. How’s that for communal living? It’s a part of the London...
View ArticleWild Spaces
A place to soar. Swift terns, turning, tumbling on the wing. Existential extension….. Filed under: Birds, Landscape, Swift Tern Tagged: Buffels Bay, existentilism, inner solace, nature photography,...
View ArticleRituals of courtship: The Kiss
The “Kiss” is in response to this week’s WordPress Challenge. Pop over to the site to see more on this topic. Filed under: Birds, Weekly photo challenge Tagged: nature photography, pigeon courtship,...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Forward
Wing span and forward thrust. This week’s topic “Forward” is sure to have brought a range of different aspects. Pop over to the WordPress site to check out more on this subject. Filed under: Birds,...
View ArticleFalse Bay: Unruffled
Some of our best days come at the back end of summer. This morning’s dawn crept in with a silvery sheen; a light gossamer veil. The sheerest whisper from the sea set a gentle tone, a backdrop for the...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the details
Feather couture. This week’s challenge is guest hosted by Christopher Martin; pop over to the WordPress site to his most extraordinary shot “Lost in the Details” . It truly has a Wow factor! Filed...
View ArticleFalse Bay: Autumn’s alchemy
The first of the Cape’s seasonal Nor’westerly storms came barging in this week bringing strong winds of up to 70 km/h, battering the city and dropped 50mm of rain in just 24 hours. But this morning...
View ArticleFleeting
Filed under: Birds, Fynbos, Weekly photo challenge Tagged: nature photography, pincushion protea, postaday, sunbird, weekly photo challenge
View ArticleCurves
The subject for this week’s photo challenge set by Sara Rosso’s is “Curves” Nature dishes up curves that are built for purpose! Here are two very different bills – one serves as a sipping straw, the...
View ArticleGood Morning False Bay!
The commuter buzz outside my windows in the morning always has me smiling. As the first rays of sun peep up over the Hottentot Holland mountain range, batches of cormorants set out to sea to catch a...
View ArticleSouthern Black-backed Gulls
It’s lively out there on the shoreline as the Southern Black-backed gulls breed from September through to March but mainly now, in November. They’re a robust species, dominating the shoreline and top...
View ArticleSpotted Thick-knee
Generally these mottled birds like to blend in and settle for well camouflaged nesting areas, but here in broad-day light is a highly visible pair nesting smack in the middle of an open grassy patch...
View ArticleCape Wagtail Fledglings
The windy season in the Cape has arrived with a vengeance. The South Easterlies pump in over the south Atlantic hurling in at gale force and are ever challenging for the residents of the Peninsula....
View ArticleThe Urban Chick.
Since my post on the first flying lessons, two weeks ago, the three wagtail fledglings have become competent little aerialists, flitting around the garden and over the wall and into the big world...
View ArticleWe have lift off …
The swift terns are back and in teeming numbers. The coastal path along this stretch of the Atlantic Ocean is a birders paradise; here we get a close-up look at the Cape cormorants and their nifty...
View ArticleSpotted Thick-knee Chick
About two months ago I posted an item on a pair of Spotted Thick-Knees nesting in the middle of an exposed grassy patch; there were doubts on their choice of nesting site, and sure enough they moved to...
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