It has already been a year of blogging for Amakhosi!
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our loyal followers that diligently read our campfire stories! I have thoroughly enjoyed sharing these amazing experiences with all of you for the past year and look forward to doing so for the coming year!
But for now, its spring time here at Amakhosi!
The above photo is of a Lilac Breasted Roller. This is one of the five different roller species that occur in Southern Africa, and also one of the resident rollers that stay for our winters!
It’s arguably one of the most colourful birds that adorn our skyline and that catches the eye of all that spot it! You see these beauties throughout the year, unlike its other colourful cousin, the European Roller, that leaves for our winter period and returns, well, more or less this time of the year!
So we are looking forward to spotting our first European Rollers for this season, as they should be hot on the tails of their friends, the Yellow billed Kites and some of the Swallows that have already returned for the South African summer!
This is truly a special time of the year, especially for all the twitchers out there!
We eagerly await the arrival of the Wahlberg Eagles, Cuckoo’s, Step Buzzards and Bee-eaters just to name but a few! And are looking forward to the aerial acrobatics with it being the start of spring time…so needless to say nests will be built and breathtaking courting displays will be the order of the day!
It’s an awesome display of colour and striking plumage during this time of the year as most males of most species will be showing off their worthiness, and this in itself is an absolute treat to witness!
Woza summer…woza!
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our loyal followers that diligently read our campfire stories! I have thoroughly enjoyed sharing these amazing experiences with all of you for the past year and look forward to doing so for the coming year!
But for now, its spring time here at Amakhosi!
The above photo is of a Lilac Breasted Roller. This is one of the five different roller species that occur in Southern Africa, and also one of the resident rollers that stay for our winters!
It’s arguably one of the most colourful birds that adorn our skyline and that catches the eye of all that spot it! You see these beauties throughout the year, unlike its other colourful cousin, the European Roller, that leaves for our winter period and returns, well, more or less this time of the year!
So we are looking forward to spotting our first European Rollers for this season, as they should be hot on the tails of their friends, the Yellow billed Kites and some of the Swallows that have already returned for the South African summer!
This is truly a special time of the year, especially for all the twitchers out there!
We eagerly await the arrival of the Wahlberg Eagles, Cuckoo’s, Step Buzzards and Bee-eaters just to name but a few! And are looking forward to the aerial acrobatics with it being the start of spring time…so needless to say nests will be built and breathtaking courting displays will be the order of the day!
It’s an awesome display of colour and striking plumage during this time of the year as most males of most species will be showing off their worthiness, and this in itself is an absolute treat to witness!
Woza summer…woza!
