#birdingfromhome

#WaterbirdWednesday…Seems the local Blue Cranes had re-nested on the local floodplains, however, with the massive downpours the area has seen in recent days, I’m not so sure this next attempt would have survived…😿 #bluecrane #crane @avibase #birdingfromhome #nevernotbirding #birding #birdtherapy #waterbirds #grus #gruidae #gruiformes #birdwatching #birds #birdsofsouthafrica #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography (at Bitou) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWqw1FBKCfH/?utm_medium=tumblr

#WaterbirdWednesday…”Hey boet, I think I’m a little lost…!!!” 😹 Odd to see an African Spoonbill just hanging out in one of the farm fields with Sacred Ibises! (There are two little vleis & a river relatively close by, but still a strange sight!) #waterbird #spoonbill @avibase #birdingfromhome #nevernotbirding #birding #birdtherapy #platalea #threskiornithidae #pelecaniformes #birdwatching #birds #birdsofsouthafrica #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography (at Wittedrif, Western Cape, South Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWYxS0aMXh1/?utm_medium=tumblr

Sweet little Lesser Striped Swallow came for a brief visit to the ceiling beams/rafters/joists/whatever you’d like to call them! Have also been hearing the elusive Black Cuckoo in the bush just outside our new place…(farm species 126 & 127, respectively) #swallow @avibase #birdingfromhome #nevernotbirding #birding #birdtherapy #hirundinid #hirundinidae #passeriformes #passerines #cecropis #birdwatching #birds #birdsofsouthafrica #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography (at Wittedrif, Western Cape, South Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWLpBOEKDLW/?utm_medium=tumblr

“Well, oh the cuckoo, oh the cuckoo… Oh the cuckoo, she sings her song; But she never has hollered cuckoo, Since my lover's been dead and gone… Well, if you miss me, if you miss me, You can come home at any time; Just you lift your wings of ivory Fly to this lonesome home of mine…” Going CUCKOO over fantastic views of the otherwise cryptically shy Klaas’ Cuckoo!! You usually only hear these emerald green beauties rather than see them, so this was a lucky sighting! #cuckoo @avibase #birdingfromhome #nevernotbirding #birding #birdtherapy #chrysococcyx #cuculidae #birdwatching #birds #birdsofsouthafrica #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography (at Wittedrif, Western Cape, South Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUc9u0Vq4_D/?utm_medium=tumblr

Mariposa Ottens created “Traveling Home” for this year’s art show, “Expanding Voices: Perspectives On Birding.” The artist shared how they had not left the state of Vermont once during all of 2020. Staying in one place for the first time in half a century. #PaperArt #StayingHome #BirdingFromHome #FeaturedArtist #ExpandingVoices #PerspectivesOnBirding #BirdsOfVermontMuseum #VermontArt #VermontArtist (at Birds of Vermont Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUFUi9ML8ZI/?utm_medium=tumblr

#StarlingSaturday…A European Starling with winter plumage, showing where they get their name… #starling @avibase #birdingfromhome #nevernotbirding #birding #birdtherapy #sturnus #sturnidae #passerines #passeriformes #birdwatching #birds #birdsofsouthafrica #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography (at Wittedrif, Western Cape, South Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTaLMRSKPMw/?utm_medium=tumblr

…We’re up to 125 species on the farm by now, with another interesting new appearance being the Brown-backed Honeybird! #honeybird @avibase #birdingfromhome #nevernotbirding #birding #birdtherapy #prodotiscus #indicatoridae #piciformes #birdwatching #birds #birdsofsouthafrica #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography (at Wittedrif, Western Cape, South Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTETkb-qDfG/?utm_medium=tumblr

It happened, ladies & gents (a while ago now, but you know me & the #waylatergram)…home/garden/farm list species Number 💯, African Stonechat! #stonechat @avibase #birdingfromhome #nevernotbirding #birding #birdtherapy #saxicola #muscicapidae #passerines #perchingbirds #passeriformes #birdwatching #birds #birdsofsouthafrica #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CTC1u6mqgjK/?utm_medium=tumblr