Tuesday, September 27, 2016

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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