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Birding Cape Town Photography Travel

Rondevlei – Sans Water

Rondevlei has been drained in preparation for burning the reeds. So there is not a lot of water around. We got some good pictures though.

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Birding Photography Travel

Pictures taken in Barrydale and Grootvadersbos

We travelled to Barrydale and visited Grootvadersbos while we were there. We got some lovely pictures.

Barrydale Sunset
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Tradouw Pass
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Vineyard Gate
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Redwoods in Grootvadersbos
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Birding Photography Travel

Vedlddrif

A recent trip to Velddrif produced some lovely pictures. Here are some, there are more pics here:

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Salt Pans
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Chestnut Banded Plover
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Birding GIFs Photography

Yellow billed duck gif

I photographed this yellow billed duck on motor drive which gave me five images seconds apart, so I turned the five images into an animated gif and it came out quite nicely.

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Birding Photography Riviersonderend

Fiscal with lunch in its claws.

This picture taken at Riviersonderend. The bird is a common fiscal and has a tiny insect in its claws.

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Birding

Pelagic Birding

The majority of pictures we took are here:

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The wake of the boat taking us out to see pelagic birds
The wake of the boat taking us out to see pelagic birds