Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge (CMMC)
Photo Challenge
Cee’s FOTD
Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Hunted or consumed by humans
Share your desktop
Here’s a brand new monthly challenge called Share your Desktop. Hosted by Clare from Clare’s Cosmos. Clare invites us all to join in the fun by sharing our desktop photo on the 15th of every month.
Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Long legged birds
Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Shorebirds
Lisa says that “Shorebirds can be found anywhere there is a water hole. You don’t have to live at the beach or on a lake to see shorebirds. These will include gulls, terns, plovers, sandpipers, egrets, herons and many more.”
Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Birds With Black Feathers
Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – In my garden
As well as for Terri’s Sunday Stills – Backyard #Birding challenge.
Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Owls
The spotted eagle-owl is a medium-sized species of owl, one of the smallest of the eagle owls. Its length is 45 centimetres and its weight is from 454 to 907 grams. It has a 100 to 140 centimetres wingspan. The facial disk is off white to pale ochre and the eyes are yellow.
Gevlekte ooruil (Afr.); ifubesi, isihulu-hulu (Xhosa); isiKhovampondo (Zulu);
makhohlo, morubisi, sehihi, sephooko (SouthSotho); sikhova (Swazi); xiyinha (Tsonga);
makgotlwê, mophoê, morubise (Tswana).
The Spotted Eagle-Owl is the most common owl in southern Africa and is often spotted in Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden. This nocturnal bird of prey lives and breeds in a variety of habitats, including alongside people in their cities and towns.
Photos taken by Jenny Cole
