Our little flat had a balcony looking over a garden with huge aloes and an empty plot
The balcony gave us a great bird-watching position and we even had one spectacular bird experience on it
Every morning, we were entertained by young, mostly male, malachite sunbirds (Nectarinia famosa)
A young Malachite sunbird (Nectarinia famosa) in profile on an aloe leaf
Young Malachite sunbird, rear view with fluffed feathers
Go away, this is my aloe!
I'm staying
OK then, I'm off!
This young kestrel visited us on three successive days, perching on the TV dish on our balcony
We could approach as close as 2 metres from him, very quietly
that he is a juvenile male Rock Kestrel (falco rupicolus)
Lynne disagrees and says it is a Lesser Kestrel (falco naumann). Let us know your opinion, please
The Kestrel in profile
perched on the television dish, with wings open
facing the camera
oblique back view
grooming his tail
and stretching
A Cape bulbul (Pycnonotus capensis) on an aloe leaf
A young malachite sunbird hen
A Hartlaub's gull (Chroicocephalus hartlaubii), also known as the king gull, striding out on the beach
Worm Hunt. Hartlaub's gulls hunting worms on the beach
Hartlaub's gulls looking for worms at the edge of the waves
Gull reflections. Light effects and reflections on the wet sand
Courting white-backed mousebirds in a potato bush
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