Pied Avocet, Marievale
I like the harmony and balance, the silent concentration, in these photographs of pied avocets with their swooping bills wadingContinue Reading
Tag: Marievale Bird Sanctuary
Blacksmith Plover
From photographs of birds, taken during my recent field trip to the Marievale Bird Sanctuary, this blog will see aContinue Reading
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Pied Kingfisher
This Pied Kingfisher was hard at work when I came across him, rising from a bed of reeds, hovering, swivellingContinue Reading
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Coot Chicks
These little chicks are coot, you might say. I saw them, on the vlei at Marievale, far out on theContinue Reading
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Bird on a Wire
Here’s a good one. A prisoner in a Turkish prison goes to the prison library, and asks for a particularContinue Reading
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Against the light
From the corner of the hide, you looked out across the water, directly into the light, where the coots wereContinue Reading
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Squacco Heron lift-off
Now here’s a thing. Going through my photos from Marievale, I came across a nice sequence of images of aContinue Reading
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White-Throated Swallow
This little fellow, I think, has the confidence to speak for himself. Photographed from a hide at Marievale, with theContinue Reading
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Sacred Ibis
On my left, as I drove slowly onto the causeway that crosses the marsh, was an expanse of dry reeds.Continue Reading
