22 March 2025 - Crocodile River Reserve (CRR)
Together with members of the AGO team, we conducted a morning survey in CRR covering two areas.
Driving to the first section which had limited suitable habitat but had yielded a pair of AGO's in the past, we inadvertently flushed a Black-headed Heron that had caught a really long snake. Unfortunately it flew off into the distance, so we had no real chance to see what it might have been or see it devour its meal
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| Black-headed Heron (Ardea melanocephala) |
No AGO's in this section, so off to the next section which involved around a 2-hour round trip walk. No AGO's at all, but we did manage a Marsh Owl
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| Marsh Owl (Asio capensis) |
A few Zitting Cisticola's were seen relatively close by given we were on foot
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| Zitting Cisticola (Cisticola juncidis) |
We flushed a pair of African Snipe in a marshy area - no photograph. Whilst trying to relocate them a Long-tailed Widowbird came past quite fast with its tail horizontal behind the body
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| Long-tailed Widowbird (Euplectes progne) |
As always, I also check for other species and had a African Migrant
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| Male African Migrant (Catopsilia florella) |
Plain Tiger/African Monarch Caterpillar feeding on the toxic Milkweed
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| Plain Tiger Caterpillar (Danaus c. orientis) |
and this delicate Lacewing
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| Lacewing sp. |
No AGO's at all was however also disconcerting, but we will check again later in the season
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