[Theme] Show Birds

[Jacques Pochoy]

Wow ! The Ladybug looks like a welcome prop...

[Nasos Kosmas]

Great shot Peter!

[Peter Connan]

Thank you very much Jacques and Nasos

[Fanie]

White-bellied Sunbird

As always, brilliant Peter.

[ArthurDent]

Beautiful shot, Peter. Nicely composed and the colors really pop!

[Peter Connan]

Thank you very much Fanie and Arthur

[Peter Connan]

From the opposite end of the "cute and cuddly" spectrum...

Cape Vulture.

[Ann]

Some more photographs of the majestic Cape Vulture on the cliff-top of Giant's Castle:





And a Jackal Buzzard who also turned up for the feast of meaty bones which we had taken up there for these birds:

[tommiejeep]

Peter and Ann, great images.  I rarely see Vultures and never close.
Thanks for posting.
Close but no cigar    Z6, 70-200 f4G vr, handheld.

[Peter Connan]

Lovely shots Anne and Tommie

[Ann]

Peter:
I am interested in where you took your splendid shots and wondering if it was also on Giant's Castle?

We weren't entirely lucky with the weather on our morning at the Hide which was cold with low-hanging clouds and swirling mist and with no thermals for the vultures to soar upon. We had hoped to see Bearded Vultures but they didn't come.

The people who had had the Hide the previous day had wonderful warmth and sun: we hoped they would come down before the end of the day, so we could have then taken their place up there, but they didn't!

We didn't get any more vultures but we did attract Collared Ravens and that rather dramatic Jackal Buzzard arrived too.






 

[Ashlandish]

I had just started hiking to Marion Lake, along with an 11 pound chihuahua, when this barred owl (I think) flew across our path. It posed a long time, eying the chihuahua, the chihuahua oblivious to the owl.

[ArthurDent]

Some more photographs of the majestic Cape Vulture on the cliff-top of Giant's Castle:





And a Jackal Buzzard who also turned up for the feast of meaty bones which we had taken up there for these birds:

They are all great, but your third image is really spectacular!

[Peter Connan]

Peter:
I am interested in where you took your splendid shots and wondering if it was also on Giant's Castle?

We weren't entirely lucky with the weather on our morning at the Hide which was cold with low-hanging clouds and swirling mist and with no thermals for the vultures to soar upon. We had hoped to see Bearded Vultures but they didn't come.

The people who had had the Hide the previous day had wonderful warmth and sun: we hoped they would come down before the end of the day, so we could have then taken their place up there, but they didn't!

We didn't get any more vultures but we did attract Collared Ravens and that rather dramatic Jackal Buzzard arrived too.

Anne, this was at Vulpro, just outside Hartebeespoort. Vulpro is a rehabilitation centre and feeding scheme who hire out a hide for a very reasonable fee, but they are much less popular than Gian't Castle, so much easier to get in.

[Brute]

I had just started hiking to Marion Lake, along with an 11 pound chihuahua, when this barred owl (I think) flew across our path. It posed a long time, eying the chihuahua, the chihuahua oblivious to the owl.

That's a nice hike. Have not been up there in years.
Some nice waterfalls below the lake and down towards the fish hatchery.
Pretty tough bushwacking threw that  thick stuff by the creek.