nartreb
Speak softly and carry a long lens
(Part II can be found here: https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=383573 )
We didn't stop in Luanda long enough to see any birds -- on to Cape Town!
The flora here are quite exotic, even the trees are oddities like protea and aloidendron (plus imported pines and eucalyptus, but many of these are being removed). There are flowers of many kinds and colors wherever there's a bit of water, and many places where there's no water visible (and it hasn't rained in weeks).
Bird-wise, practically everything was a lifer:
malachite sunbird, hadada ibis, an unidentified plover, an unidentified gull,
egyptian goose, yellow bishop, a mystery bird, red-winged starlings,
speckled pigeon, ring-necked dove,
african penguins, black oystercatchers, white-breasted cormorants, plus a few I didn't manage to photograph, including a mousebird (speckled or white-backed), pied crows, and a cape robin-chat.
edit: saw a Jackal Buzzard this afternoon, of course when I didn't have my camera.
We didn't stop in Luanda long enough to see any birds -- on to Cape Town!
The flora here are quite exotic, even the trees are oddities like protea and aloidendron (plus imported pines and eucalyptus, but many of these are being removed). There are flowers of many kinds and colors wherever there's a bit of water, and many places where there's no water visible (and it hasn't rained in weeks).
Bird-wise, practically everything was a lifer:
malachite sunbird, hadada ibis, an unidentified plover, an unidentified gull,
egyptian goose, yellow bishop, a mystery bird, red-winged starlings,
speckled pigeon, ring-necked dove,
african penguins, black oystercatchers, white-breasted cormorants, plus a few I didn't manage to photograph, including a mousebird (speckled or white-backed), pied crows, and a cape robin-chat.
edit: saw a Jackal Buzzard this afternoon, of course when I didn't have my camera.
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