stuartshearer's Identifications

Photobomber!

I was trying for a rustic maternal shot of mama Egyptian Goose shepherding her brood at one of the croc ponds (well away from any lurking herps) when a rather spectacular breeding Egret 'bombed' into the foreground

mad ground chickens

Watched a half dozen PC Turacos 'bounding' - hopping, bouncing, running and pecking - about the drought-ravaged front lawn. Unusual to see these generally strictly arboreal birds ever coming to ground. Or forming flocks. Then realized they were finding fallen fruit from the overhanging Ziziphus mucronata (Buffalo Thorn). Obviously hungry and possibly reluctant, as pretty large birds, to risk the vicious 'haak en steek' double thorns of the tree with its now very meagre crop of fruit remaining on the thinner branches.