Birds on drive

Blue Waxbill

Spotted Eagle-Owl

Pair of African fish eagles

A few pics from the birding week. We had a sleep out last night way on the other side of the reserve in the middle of a nice old dry riverbed, a good few hours of cooking over the fire and star gazing with a nice relaxed drive back to camp.
A test in two days that will cover about half of the birding challenge and tomorrow is a full day of study.

 We have a friendly competition among the group as to who can see the highest number of birds in the last few days, and without knowing numbers, I think our group has done well with over 100 identified by sound and sight.

 This here is a African Hawk Eagle, a less common tan morph coloration, he was happy to sit for a few pictures before giving some great in air shots.

On the left is a Adult Bateleur, one of the hardest birds to ID since it's adolescence feathers differ drastically from this one we found here the other day.

On the right is a female collard sunbird (and the bright blue/red collar is only seen on the males).
We have loads of very colorful, beautiful birds, but for me it's all about the raptors.



One more drive to add up the numbers and then a full day of bird booking for the exam.