New spring season feathered arrivals!

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Oh yes! They are back for the breeding season. These are two "Blue Cranes" (Anthropoides paradiseus)

We took a short drive to our local airfield and on the way we stopped to take some photos from our car of the surrounding nature and wild birds on the farms.
As usual we were pleasantly surprised!

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A Guinea fowl took the lead here to show the Blue Crane a better feeding spot 😃

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The above photo is just to give you an idea about the road that we were traveling on!

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This little plover like "Capped Wheatear" (Oenanthe pileata) popped up to have a look at us!

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The Wheatear's mate was close by doing her thing!

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At the same time a "Black headed Heron" (Ardea melanocephala) came flying over in the sharp sunlight!

Then we stopped on the road next to a small farm dam!

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A little spring youngster floated on the water.

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That had to be one of the parents nearby.

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Finally here's a view of the dam and you can see three ducks in this picture!

And that's All Friends!

We had a coffee at the airfield and a chat to the manager, as he is a friend. I will show you some photos that I took there in another post.
We hope that you have enjoyed this one!

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Such beautiful birds these Blue Cranes and the landscape looks very nice and inviting, Zac.

You are every day taking so many cool photos of so many different birds, great 😀

Cheers and !BEER
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Thank you kindly Hannes.

We even have the Blue Cranes birds stamped on one of our coins and I have done a detailed post on them last year.
So I don't want to repeat the detailed information, as cheetah might come and knock on my door. I don't want to lie and say nobody is at home hahaha.

I love the landscapes here, especially the vines that run in lines towards the mountains and those old majestic farm houses with the old Cape Dutch Gables at the foot of the mountains also make for great pictures!

Imagine what this will look like when the vines are fully grown with green leaves and grapes in December!

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Taken today and I will take some more in December!

Cheers and thanks!

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Yeah, I know how our vineyards in Lower Austria look like, and it might look about the same 😊

Cheetah can be annoying sometimes, I believe, but over all it is a very good thing.

Cheers and !BEER

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Ah, that's great, so I don't need to send you a photo in December lol.

I agree with you that Cheetah delivers an essential service and there are also others like hivewatchers and guiltyparties that know us, so I was only joking lol.

Cheers and !BEER

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No, you don't need to send me a photo, but you could make a nice post 😉

I had twice a problem with Steemcleaners on the other blockchain, but I could convince them that I never use other content than my own, and if I do I tell my source (Wikipedia).

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I normally send you a photo of a post that I do Hannes Lol.

Yeah, I have also an once as they warned me about a photo that was published on Facebook. So I looked and there the photo was, published on the previous day.

So they were right, BUT the photo on FB was published by me on my own FB page.
No more problems since then!

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Yeah, the bot is very strict, but luckily there are people behind who you can talk to 😊

Cheers and !BEER

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Yes and the bonus is that they are decent people Hannes.
No rudeness or crudeness and one can indeed talk to them.

Cheers and thanks!

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I have made this experience on the other blockchain too 😊

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Me too and after having had an intensive look at us they even gave us a "verified" badge lol.

I still have to figure out how to copy all of our badges onto the bottom of our posts like you do hahaha

Cheers and thanks!

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Good morning Zac,

just have a look at https://hivebuzz.me/@papilloncharity for your badges. The images are stored on the HiveBuzz server.
@HiveBuzz has made a post about the badges and how to implement them: https://peakd.com/hivebuzz/@hivebuzz/hivebuzz-hive-gamification-experience

Hope this helps you Zac :)

Cheers and !BEER
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Hi Hannes,

Thank you kindly for this my friend and I hope that your day is good!

Cheers and thanks!

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Oh yes, my day was quite okay, hopefully yours too 😊

Cheers and !BEER

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Yes thank you, we also had a quiet and peaceful day. No dramas and just stayed at home, as we were thinking to go to the beach, but eventually gave up on the idea.
Yesterday we were a lovely new place to meet with Marian's aunt and I simply have to go back there Hannes.

They also farm strawberries there and as we left we saw some pickers in the fields, so we will go to buy some fresh ones there. It is very near to the other side of the mountain that I showed you with the grape vines.

Cheers and thanks!

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Of course you have to back there if you like that new place, and fresh strawberries are one more reason additional to take photos of the obviously beautiful landscape 🙂

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Did you know that there is a hiking gorge in that mountain Hannes?
No, of course you don't. One can hike from the backside of the mountain through the gorge that is a mini mountain pass, right over to the the front side that enters a nature reserve.

Such a pity that I cannot walk that far at the moment, but maybe one day when the knee and the back is fixed I will do it as the views must be magnificent.

Cheers and thanks!

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I hope you will be able to hike through this gorge, Zac, because hiking through a gorge is something I enjoy 😀

And I hope you take many photos 😉

2020 was no good hiking year for me, but therefore I want to hike double in 2021 😁

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simply beautiful birdies.

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Hey, how have you been my friend?

Glad that you liked the birds and thanks for popping in!

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so-so. since August 25 I am back at my concrete-asphalt jungles :P

I am not making too much photo sessions recently. ps. today and yesterday (photo) harvested some nice mushrooms, tho. it is a season here !

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Ah, those concrete jungles that I so dislike lol.
I will go and have a look at your mushrooms.

Cheers!

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your seashore, with all the seagulls, sea salt, and the tide finds, I would prefer so much better!!! :=)

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Oh yeah, thanks and much better than the concrete jungles my friend.
A completely different world.

Cheers and !BEER

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WOw such a wonderful selection of birds and a beautiful area thanks for sharing with us

Blessings

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Thank you kindly JJ and I am glad that you liked the post.

Blessings!

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OMG that little Plover how adorable! I am putting your area on my to travel list! There are to many animals birds and other creepy crawly things I just need to see and photograph myself. I have only been on the Ivory Coast and east Africa. You make my heart smile with your posts thank you.

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Thank you and this place is indeed a photographers paradise.
I am currently trying to get a permit to go and take photos of some Eland bucks that they are re-introducing into the area.
Glad that you like my photos my friend.
Blessings!

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The blue cranes look lovely!

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Wonderful creatures my friend and we are so happy to see them again, although they are not the same pair that I posted last year on the farm with their baby.
Maybe we will also get this couple's baby in a while .

Thank you!

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Oh that would be so cute, baby birds are just adorable! Have a great weekend!

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Sorry, don't know how I missed this.

Yes, baby birds always remind me how precious life is and thankfully we have saved many of the little ones over time.
Life is fragile and so few of us realize that; as each morning when we open our eyes we were given grace for a new day.

Instead we label days with names and hate some of them.
Such is life my friend!

Hope that your Sunday will be good!

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The waterfowl are just beautiful and I am glad you stopped to capture them to share with us. What a great day you had.

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Thank you kindly.
We did indeed have a lovely day there my friend.
Blessings!

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