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This egret caught a fish and proceeded to eat it. Lovely sighting

Saw the male and female parents around the nest - Orange breasted Sunbirds

tierboskat (Leptailurus serval)

Sayidi end-April count: 47

Female. Both male and female were bombing the owl.
Owl's face is a treat.

Private property, special permission required

Small patch on rocky mountain slope slightly shaded but amongst fynbos - not confined to rocky outcrop.

Specimens collected HAT Tony. Specimen photos evieb.

lvs dimorphic, very local

one can just see the stigma peeping through.

local on loamy soils; lvs floppy, velvety, inner bracts divided to base; local endemic

With photos of the host plant

rare, local, damp peaty steep s slopes

Lovely begging child - parent interaction. Second parent was on the other side of the gorge and communicating - which caught their attention on the last image

Not sure which blind snake this is.

Same pair in each pic

quite common on acid sands in this area, to 0.7m; resprouter

Body length 7mm

Good match for type: https://bit.ly/2Ojw9Sh

5760

Listed as EXTINCT, last seen 1804

never thought I'd bump into this monotypic uber oddity in the Celastraceae again; about 30 plts; rocky slopes, very local, to 20cm

serendipitous find of the trip! known from a single collection made in 1978 and only specified as "Blokkop.