Over the Hottentot Mountains
Today the same group as yesterday with one addition, Paul
Barding who joined us last night, took a drive northeast of Cape Town. In good order we were blessed with a pair of
Blue Cranes (see pictures posted earlier), the national bird of South
Africa. This was quickly followed by a
Peragrine Falcon pair at a rest stop where they sat on the towering cliff
above. And we were privileged to have a
Black Harrier ( a rather difficult bird to see usually) that we chased along
the highway before finally have the opportunity to photography him less than 20
yards from our vehicle. We then
travelled a dirt road through the farm and ranch lands associated with this
area. In addition to seeing many new
species we had occasion to observe a Yellow Mongoose pair. You can see much of what we saw in my photo
post entitled More South African Photos.
That is a much better way of telling you what we saw than mere
words. As you can see we had a very
eventful day and the pictures don’t include all the species seen. In total we have seen 138 species to date by
my count.
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