Amazing to see such a bird walking around in what is really Cape Town Harbour and a very low tide.
The camera is Canons Gll, now past its best as salt or dirt had scratched the lens but as the camera
has been used just about daily this past four years I have no complaints.
I was there to meet up with Dudley Dix and the crew of Black Cat some three days before the start of the Cape 2 Rio 2014 ocean race.
For more on this now very African bird read below and check the link.
http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/birds/ardeidae/ardea_cinerea.htm
Roy
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The camera is Canons Gll, now past its best as salt or dirt had scratched the lens but as the camera
has been used just about daily this past four years I have no complaints.
I was there to meet up with Dudley Dix and the crew of Black Cat some three days before the start of the Cape 2 Rio 2014 ocean race.
For more on this now very African bird read below and check the link.
Distribution and habitat
Occurs across much of the Old World, from western Scandinavia, Britain and the Iberian Peninsula to sub-Saharan Africa. In southern Africa it is most abundant in Zimbabwe, northern and eastern Botswana and South Africa, while also occupying patches of Namibia and Mozambique. It generally favours shallow water bodies, such as estuaries, lagoons, rivers, lakes, the intertidal zone, marshes and dams.
http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/birds/ardeidae/ardea_cinerea.htm
Roy
