Some lovely African birds.

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Weird weather did not stop us from going out to a nature reserve.
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This little guy is called a Cape Batis (Batis capensis) and he has a lovely song.

Birds in the wild are plentiful here depending where one wants to search for them. I move through the trees like a ghost and they don't even know that I am there. So they go about their business and I go about mine with the camera.
Maybe that renowned and celebrated wildlife bird photographer johannpiber@johannpiber will like this :)
Come and look.

Here is a young Malachite male and something special happened here.
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He had a younger Malachite brother (Nectarinia famosa)
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And believe it or not, he was feeding a younger brother.
The parents were nowhere around and maybe they were orphans.
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Beautiful scrambled colors and later the colors will solidify into the lush show of metallic green.
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Now for a change as this ringed bird is a Cape Sugarbird (Promerops cafer) preening in a rare late sunbreak.
The ring on his leg means that he was counted and listed.
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Fluffing and stretching in preparation for flight.
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There were two of them sitting on top of this bush.
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This is what a young adult looks like and I love their tails.
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Now let me show you two beautiful ducks.

The first fella is an African Black Duck (Anas sparsa) wild of course.
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And the second guy is a Yellow Billed Duck (Anas undulata)
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A friend tengolotodo@tengolotodo also bought a Canon camera like mine recently and you can see how his lovely bird shots have improved HERE

All of these are wild birds and I could easily put more than a hundred photos of wild birds in this post, but I have to limit myself.
We also saw two flocks of Guinea fowls fighting for territory in a public road that runs next to the nature reserve. That is a post for another day.
I thank you for visiting this post and hope that you have also appreciated the beauty of our wild birds.
A happy Thursday to everyone.

And That's All Friends.

Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX70HS Bridge camera.

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