It is nearly spring and all the birds at Rondevlei are building nests. It has always amazed me the amount of building material
an ibis will carry in its beak to the nesting site. These pictures give you a typical but brief day
in the life of a nest building ibis.
First off, they seem to do quite a bit of hanging about with the mob on any warm sandbar
But then some or other time the impulse to build gets going.
Here is an ibis coming in to land. Not very gainly, but they seem to survive which is all that really matters.
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This is a dense reed patch and they pull it apart to get building material.
Hey! Don’t stand on me. The terrapin at the feet of this ibis never moved an inch in the time I was there,
so I guess he wasn’t really concerned about being stood on.
This guy got himself all tied up in knots.
And, off they go, carrying the bits and pieces to a reed bed in the middle of the vlei.
