Rietvlei 10 June 2009

10 Jun 2009
A super day.
I planned a long walk to the hides but had to cut my walk short because spider webs were covering the whole area.
Going to the hides would have meant that I would have been covered with spiders.
The birds seem to congregate south of the new bird hide

• 10 Red-billed Teal
• 8 Yellow-billed Ducks
• African Darters
• 5 Red-knobbed Coots
• Egyptian geese
• Cormorants
• Cape Shoveler

Rietvlei 9 Jun 2009

9 Jun 2009

Birds spotted

• Pelican 80-100
• Shoveler 250
• Pied Avocets 20
• African Spoonbill 8
• Flamingo 50

18 May 2009 Rietvlei

18 May 2009

• The pan is full of Cape Shoveler about +/- 200

• 50 Lesser Flamingos

• 100 Pied Avocets

• 20 African Spoonbill

• 10 Little Stints

(photograph by Wally: Flamingos)

Ducklings swimming around 6-9-008

(photograph Cape Shoveler - Wally/Rietvlei - Cape)

06-09-2008

Went for a walk behind Mac Phearson’s Plant Nursery.

We saw a lot of nest building activity as the weavers were building their nests in the trees

There were lots of ducks with duckling.

Yellow-billed Ducks with 8 and another with 3 ducklings.

Cape Shovelers with 6, 4 and 8 chicks