At times we get things wrong, and then the unexpected happens.
It was a hot and windy day as we left our house.
We were on our way to attend a Christmas lunch and I took a wrong turn, as instead of taking a right turn, I turned left. So at the end of the road, I had to turn the car around, in order to follow the road the other way. It was during the reverse of the car, that my wife spotted some movement behind the car. She said that she thinks it is a bird, so my camera screamed to see.
Come and see what was behind the car.
I stopped and had to make an awkward turn of my body to see what it was and there they were on the sidewalk of the road.
A Cape Spurfowl (Pternistis capensis) and her babies.
Not every day that one can see them with their babies on show and it is so amazing to see how these wild birds have infiltrated the town's suburbs. There were 3 babies, and you can see the third one at the right of the picture.
And so, I saw this as a great reward for taking the wrong turn.
We finally arrived at our lunch destination.
On our way back home, I decided to take a bit of a longer scenic route.
The clouds had taken on a lovely yellow tint as we arrived back home.
Just another day in paradise, as the saying goes, and I was so glad to get the spurfowl and her babies on camera. We had a great lunch, but in the back of my mind all the time was the fact that so many had nothing to eat for a Christmas lunch.
55 ,000 of our state officials cling to their salaries of more that ZAR 1 million per year, and the government grant to the unemployed 8.5 million people is only ZAR 350 per month. This was said recently by Archbishop Thabo Makgoba.
So, I am sure that you can see that I was not much in a happy feasting frame of mind, and thankfully the lunch was very peaceful at my wife's aunt's place. This that was said in paragraph above is one of the reasons why we so often flee into nature. And on this Christmas day, nature came to us, by means of the spur fowls.
Such is life.
I hope that you have enjoyed the pictures.
Photo by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
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