Last Thursday was very sunny and good for pictures. Here are a few herons and terns taken that day.


Western reef heron


Beating a retreat


Dark and a light morph of western reef herons


Gull-billed tern


Gull-billed tern shaking off excess water

As there have been a lot of pallid swifts around lately, I thought I'd try my hand at photographing them. These are the better shots.

Yesterday I got my first sighting of a white-tailed lapwing. Picture below.


White-tailed lapwing


Common snipe


Pallid swift


Meadow pipit

At last I managed to get out again yesterday. The following are some of the birds around.


Young male namaqua dove


Female namaqua dove


Isabelline shrike


Graceful prinia


Female mallard


Female bluethroat