Lucky strike

This photo was taken at a holiday resort near Nylstroom. In the photo 3 birds (all three special because they are not very common in Pretoria) were caught at once at the same time:
The whitish bird is a Groundscraper Thrush... as the name indicate, this thrush were mostly seen running around on the large lawns of the resort. The bird just next to the thrush is a Cape Glossy Starling... very common and was seen everywhere in the resort. The bird flying was unmistakably a Fork-tailed Drongo... how can any person miss that forked tail...

Egyptian Goose (Kolgans)

Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus) is very common in South Africa.

This photo shown here is a goose posing for a nice photo at the Johannesburg Botanical Gardens. They appear to be very clumsy, but are still very beautiful animals. They are for sure also, like many other birds, a good example of being faithful because Egyptian Geese pair for life.

Egyptian Geese were considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians, and appeared in much of their artwork. Read more on Wikipedia

Grey-headed Bush Shrike (Spookvoel)

Every year my work organizes a weekend during which we get to know each other better and participate in competitions among each other. As for me and Thinus, we got to know our bird a bit better as well. We went to a resort called Weesgerus about 6 kilometers from Nylstoom (Modimolle).
One of our first sightings was this beautiful Grey-headed bush-shrike that caused lots of excitement. In Afrikaans it’s known as a “Spookvoël” literally translated as “Ghost bird”. It got its name because the bush-shrike’s call sounds a lot like a ghost calling.
As seen in the picture it has very good camouflage and it just make you think how many special birds could be hiding right under your nose.