Easy to get the blacksmiths into panic mode, just go near their nest. I know where they nest and I got them with their babies last spring season, and of course I posted it at the time. The one seemed convinced

Imagine you have lived in a place for generations, and now you get kicked out. They are Crowned Lapwings (Vanellus coronatus), and their numbers are dwindling in the Western Cape. They are large, mostly

A great new find here and my first to see it. As we turned the corner I saw this and I stopped the car. My instincts screamed a message to me that something else was here. We were driving around and looking