This is the eighth of the ten promised Zimanga photography blogs.
A Grey Heron fishing in the late afternoon light at the Lagoon Hide on Zimanga Private Game Reserve.
More Zimanga images at https://sperka.info/2015/07/22/reflection-plus-zimanga/
This afternoon – after coming back from town – I started working through the pictures I took during my trip to Mpumalanga.
And I found a hidden treasure – the first picture is of a Grey Heron flying building material to its nest and the second is of one of its chicks. It was a very special sighting at Lake Panic – Kruger National Park – and I had forgotten all about it.
This morning I explained to the volunteers on my vehicle that Hamerkops (a medium-sized wading bird) do usually only occur around larger water bodies and are therefore normally not seen on places like Thanda (with very limited water sources).
An hour later I drove by on of our waterholes and what was wading through the water: A Hamerkop.
That teaches me never to make definite statements – I will use the word usually a lot in the future 🙂
We also got photo opportunities with a Grey Heron (in flight) and a Namaqua Dove (I love the purple color on the wings).
Even without seeing any of the big five everyone enjoyed themselves very much.
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