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Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)Observer
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Floating Solo
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Bottlebrushes (Genus Melaleuca)Observer
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Bottle brush tree
Young leaves from the tree were used in the nest.
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Birds (Class Aves)Observer
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Bird nest
Found the nest lying below a tree in our yard. Possible builders include mousebirds, wood hoepoe and laughing doves. There are probably more options but these are the birds I see most frequently in the tree above the garden.
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Southern Red Bishop (Euplectes orix)Observer
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Orange bishop
Females have broad eye brows and off white underparts but males are rather red.
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African Clawed Frog (Xenopus laevis)Observer
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platana tadpoles
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African Freshwater Crabs (Genus Potamonautes)Observer
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River crab
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Cape Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus ssp. pusillus)Observer
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Injured bull seal
Adult Bull injured.
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Cephalopods (Class Cephalopoda)Observer
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Kalk Bay: Four or five seals playing in the water just off the pier, eating bits of fish and squid/octopus tossed over by the local fisherman. (Google, OSM)Description
off cut octopus
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Cape Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus ssp. pusillus)Observer
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Kalk Bay: Four or five seals playing in the water just off the pier, eating bits of fish and squid/octopus tossed over by the local fisherman. (Google, OSM)Description
South African Fur seals
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African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus)Observer
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Boulders penguins
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Spotted Eagle-Owl (Bubo africanus)Observer
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K^bosch spotted eagle owl
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Eastern Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)Observer
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Cautious squirrel
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Southern African Dusky Flycatcher (Muscicapa adusta ssp. adusta)Observer
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Spotted flycatcher
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Southern Hadada Ibis (Bostrychia hagedash ssp. hagedash)Observer
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Hadeda
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Southern Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris ssp. coronatus)Observer
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Helmeted Guineafowl
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Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca)Observer
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Mama duck and ducklings
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Cape Eland (Tragelaphus oryx ssp. oryx)Observer
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Herd of Eland
Probably over a 100 eland (there were more to our right and to our left in addition to what is in the photo).
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Wahlberg's Snake-eyed Skink (Panaspis wahlbergii)Observer
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Rooipoort Nature Reserve: Found under a rock, near a dried-up pan, within a couple meters of the road side. (Google, OSM)Description
Iridescent skink
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African Wafer-lid Trapdoor Spider (Genus Ancylotrypa)Observer
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Orange-brown spider
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Koppie Foam Grasshopper (Dictyophorus spumans)Observer
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Aposomatic Grasshopper
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Kalahari Scrub Robin (Cercotrichas paena ssp. paena)Observer
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Kalahari Scrub-Robin
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Red-eyed Dove (Streptopelia semitorquata)Observer
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Red eyed dove
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Twospot Ground Beetle (Anthia omoplata)Observer
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Oogpister look-alike
Both beetles- oogpister and this look-alike - were fairly abundant around this time of year. I don^t recall seeing any when I was there in April 2012.
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Namaqua African Hyacinth (Ledebouria undulata)Observer
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Tiny flower
All the plants I saw were around that size. Came up a few days following a thunderstorm.