November
Limpopo
Ray and Katherine Knock
I was itching to get up to the Limpopo for the beginning of the summer season and so I took a week trip up there to see what was going on. We ended up with 14 raptors of 6 species, 8 Steppe Buzzards, (all colour ringed) a Black-breasted Snake Eagle and A Brown Snake Eagle a Dark-chnting Goshawk and Long-crested Eagle.
At the mist-belt forest site, we got some nice endemics, Drakensberg Prinia, Cape Grassbird and Olive Woodpecker, Barratt's Warblers and a few Dark-capped Yellow Warblers, suggesting a little influx of these, as a possible altitudinal movement. It was also nice to get the first Willow Warblers of the season as well as a few Afro-tropical migrant African Paradise Flycatchers.
Got a few Purple and Lilac-breasted Rollers on the raptor runs.
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| Ray with his first Brown Snake-eagle |
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| busy net! |
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| a good net round! |
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| Lilac-breasted Roller |
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| African Paradise Flycatcher |
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| Purple Roller |
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| White-throated Robin-chat |
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| Willow Warbler |
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| Horned Adder |
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| Dark-capped Yellow Warbler |
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| adult Steppe Buzzard |
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| Long-crested Eagle |
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| Drakensberg Prinia |
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