Showing posts with label speckled pigeon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speckled pigeon. Show all posts

Saturday, 20 July 2013

Afternoon walk.

Took the dogs for a slow stroll around the farm, they were beside themselves with happiness. As usual I took my camera with me.


Southern bald-headed Ibis, (Geronticus calvus), these birds are restricted to the eastern higher areas of South Africa. Bald-headed ibises are listed as vulnerable.


Speckled pigeon, (Columba guinea) also known as rock pigeons, definitely not a threatened species and across most of Southern Africa.


Another view.


Winter wheat under center pivot irrigation. This a huge pivot and it irrigates fifty hectares, about 2.2 acres to hectare.