Day 2: 26 ‘lifers’ including Cape Rockjumper, Victorin’s Warbler (a bugger of a bird to see as likes deep, thick vegetation), African Penguin, 5 species of Cormorant.

#CapeTown #SouthAfrica #Birding #Birds #Wildlife #Nature #Fynbos #BirdsOfMastodon

Cape Rockjumper
African Penguin
Blue Crane
Rock Dassie

Although I saw 35 ‘lifers’ today, 1 stopped me in my tracks - the Orange-breasted Sunbird. Wow such colours. The young Boomslang snake was a good spot too.

Orange-breasted Sunbird
Lemon Dove
Rock Kestrel
Doubletree by Hilton, Cape Town

Helderberg nature reserve in Somerset West.

This bit of paradise sits on the edge of the City of Cape Town metro area.

A massive fire tore through here a few years ago, but the fynbos is doing what fynbos does: regenerating spectacularly.

#CapeTown

#waterfallwednesday
Waterfall on an unnamed river half way along the Boesmanskloof Hiking Trail. The trail runs between Greyton and McGregor in the Western Cape

#hiking #fynbos #greyton #mcgregor #waterfall #waterfallphotography
#overberg

Common Storksbill (Pelargonium Capitatum)
From the Fynbos Biome
Beautiful and hardy, they survive scorchingly hit and dry summers with temperatures rising to 40°C+
Winters are cold and wet with about 80% of the annual rainfall during winter.

#flowers #flowerphotography #photography
#fynbos #pelargonium
#nature

Salter A fynbos flower

#flower
#fynbos
#macro
#nature
#naturephotography
#flowerphotography

Water Cats Tail
A member of the Bulbinella family.

#flowers #fynbos
#flowerphotography
#photography
#macro #closeup
#naturephotgraphy
#nature #plants

A mantled storkbill flower. Endemic to the Western Cape. A member of the pelargonium family. They are tiny as you can see by my fingers in the background

#flowers #flowerphotography
#macrophotography
#pelargonium #fynbos #endemic #Beauty #floweroftheday

#BloomScrolling

Walking with a friend on the mountain above Kalk Baai and didn't want to hold her up so all my photos of white flowers are a bit blown out.

Got rained on, which was nice.

Saw a big pod of dolphins from our viewpoint on the mountain. Lots of gulls flying above them, must be a lot of fish to eat.

Just back from a birthday hike in the mountains.

Marloth nature reserve perches on a stretch of the Langeberg Mountain range that towers above Swellendam, #SouthAfrica.

This range prevents most precipitation from reaching the arid Little Karoo landscape beyond. But this ocean side stays lush with green #fynbos.

We’ve just missed the local proteas in full bloom, but still a good specimen here and there.