I am still sorting through my photographs from South Africa. I knew that I had this little series of photographs because I can remember in vivid detail this particular bird. I had spent the afternoon at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens and a glorious hour late in the afternoon photographing sunbirds that were absolutely stunningly gorgeous. (Check back on the blog to see some photos of them). As the day turned to evening, the light became absolutely perfect. We had made our way towards the exit and to be honest my wife was just about starting to become long suffering although she never said, bless her! I was dawdling and she was hurrying, it was just the perfect time of day and the birds were everywhere. I caught sight of a small bird which was obviously a newly fledged chick and managed to get a nice photograph. See below.
After a short while one of the parents showed itself and I watched it search for food as the youngster reamained nearby, probably close to the nest as I suspected that it had only just fledged.
The parent continued it's search for food and in the great light it really showed well being more concerned with finding food than me being nearby. After a second or two it flew over the tarmac path and perched on the dead head of the "Red Hot Poker" . I wasn't aware of it but it grabbed a spider or perhaps a small weavell of some kind but quickly rejected it, perhaps it was poisonous?
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