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More Palmiet Privilege

  • some emperor moth from nearby Cowies Hill
    some emperor moth from nearby Cowies Hill
  • Wahlberg's Emperor
    Wahlberg’s Emperor
  • unknown Louis
    unknown Louis
  • Warren's a midwife
    Warren’s a midwife
  • Suncana misses v little
    Suncana misses v little
  • Rory saw the Crowned eagle soaring against a cloudy sky
    Rory saw the Crowned eagle soaring against a cloudy sky
  • Rory saw Familiar Chats feeding babies
    Rory’s Familiar Chats feeding babies
  • Roger in the rain
    Roger in . .
  • . . the rain
    . . the rain
  • Nick's
    Nick’s
  • nightime walk
    nightime walk
  • nocturnal
    nocturnal
  • nunus
    nunus
  • A Craibia zimmermannii from north of here
    A Craibia zimmermannii from north of here
  • is flowering merrily - 'sand peawood'
    is flowering merrily – ‘sand peawood’

Spring has sprung.

(iNaturalist ID’d the first moth as one of the Giant Silkworm Moths Subfamily Saturniinae)

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Forgot to include this. Suncana Bradley’s earlier pic of a female Black Cuckooshrike flying towards her. Unusual, striking.

Some Spring Sightings

Palmiet Nature Reserve is ready for Spring! We’ve had a cold winter, some early rain, wind storms and today a hot ‘Berg wind.’ Nature lovers in the Palmiet Rangers group have been spotting all sorts of interesting life in our valley.

– Me Hadeda Ibis, Helen Woolly-necked Stork, Roger Hogg Purple-crested Turaco, Roger Hogg Hadeda Ibis –
– Louis Lodder dead Red-backed Mannikin, Roger Hogg Black-bellied Starling, Rory O’Connor Crowned Eagle, me, Hadeda Ibis –
– Roger Hogg’s Klaas’ Cuckoo and Green Wood-hoopoe –
– Dave James Wahlberg’s Emperor moth, Warren Friedman Tricalysia lanceolata, Gail Robinson caterpillar on Deinbollia, Lellos ?Grey-headed Sparrow, Taylors ?Leptopelis tree frog in arum lily –

Then some Palmetians went to Roosfontein and shot a Nightjar!

– Fiery-Necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis – on the nest –

Meantime, Pigeon Valley in Glenwood has also been busy, with ‘Friends of PV’ honcho Crispin Hemson keeping us all up-to-date about his patch as always:

– Crispin Hemson Little Bee-eaters, Pin-tailed Whydah, Clivia flowers; Steve Woodhall Spotted Eagle Owl –

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Oh, and babies! I forgot about the babies. When Spring springs, babies pop out . . Warren Friedman is the host daddy to these two broods. And the videographer.

https://videopress.com/v/FrzY7mvR?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true
https://videopress.com/v/EAOPe4EL?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true

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Palmiet Lockdown Portfolio

Lockdown has given us the opportunity to share pictures of birds and mammals and insects and other creatures seen. And plants, which I’ll show in another post. Thanks to the lovely gang of Palmiet Rangers for sharing these! I’m afraid I don’t know all their full names, but the top pic was by Roy Smith, and Roger Hogg took all these bird pics; the butterfly, scorpion and mamba are Suncana Bradley’s. The bushbuck pics may be by Lt-Col Geoffrey Caruth (shown bottom-left in the collage below).

– palmiet lockdown pics –

This one showcases the reason we’re here! Bird pics and green hawk moth Roger; Citrus Swallowtail butterfly Elize Taylor; White-barred Emperor at bottom, vervet and stick insect mine; Big moth on white is Cay Hickson’s; I don’t know who shot the bushbuck nkonka, but believe it was in their garden in David Maclean road – let me know pls!

– Palmiet lockdown pics –
– the Caruth’s window on the valley –

. . and lastly, when one of these grows up they want to be the other one:

– Sun Bradley’s pics –

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