SATURDAY CRITTERS

On one of my walks when we visited Lake Malawi I saw this Village Weaver.  

I am liking this post with Saturday Critters.

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WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY - Malawi

I only saw one bird and that was this male House Sparrow 

when i visited the Open Arms Orphanage in Malawi. 
(See MONDAY's post for part 1 of the story and tomorrow for the end of it)

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WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY - Malawi

These photographs were shot while I was visiting Lake Malawi for 4 days with my family and this Bird of prey is a Yellow billed Kite.

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FRIDAY'S HUNT and WEEKEND REFLECTIONS - Malawi

Time for FRIDAY’S HUNT and WEEKEND REFLECTIONS  and this week it is the turn of the letter S, metal and mineral and I was spoiled for choice with all the S things that I seemed to have photographed when i spent 4 wonderful days on the shores of Lake Malawi.  Below are the shots I picked for today.   

Since I am a bird watcher we will start with a few birds.  On my early morning walks i always saw some birds and this bird is a newly fledged SWALLOW.

Then I spied these House SPARROWS and the one to the right is a young one.

 Now this photograph illustrates (to me) how SPECIAL these two boys are.  My grandson Daniel on the left and Ben his friend got up early on the Sunday as it was Mother’s Day.  So they carried  ? buckets of water from the lake and make these huge letters and picked leaves to decorated the sign which said, Happy Mother’s day for their Mum’s and Me also.  We were very touched.

In the grounds of the place we were staying they had a huge trampoline dug into the ground and the children loved playing and invention routines on it.  This is Annika sitting on it but do you see the huge METAL SPRINGS round the ends?  

Perhaps you can see the METAL SPRiNGS better in this shot. This shot was taken when the family bought a trampoline for their garden in Malawi and it is being moved with Annika on it from one house to their home.

Did you know that in Britain a fizzy drink is also know as a MINERAL? 

Here is Ben about to drink his MINERAL which i think was a Coke.

I am ending with the SETTING Sun going down over our infinity SWIMMING pool giving a SMASHING REFLECTION SHOT.

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WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY - Malawi

While I was watching the beautiful sunset fall over Lake Malawi, I suddenly saw this Hamerkop, Dove and Little Egret on the beach and although they are all basically in silhouette, I thought the images were lovely.  

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WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY - Malawi

 This Hoopoe I saw on one of my early morning walks with my daughter in Malawi.  It has been on the ground near the road but on seeing us approach, it flew high into this tree.  I am linking to Wild bird Wednesday.

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WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY - Malawi

As I said yesterday I have just returned from Malawi and every morning at 5.30 am my daughter and I would go for a walk and one day I saw this Stripped Kingfisher sitting on a wire.  I am linking this post with Wild Bird Wednesday.

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WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY - VIDEO of Golden rumped Tinker Barbet

A while back I showed you a few stills of the Golden rumped Tinker Barbet in Malawi which I saw when I was out with the bird guide while I was staying at the Cottage .   At the time I had not uploaded the video so that is what I am showing you today.  I think you will be interested in it and I am linking this post with

WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY.

  

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WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY

I have two birds to show you from Malawi today.  The first one I had never seen before.  It is the  Yellow - rumpled Tinkerbird ( Golden rumpled Tinker Barbet).  

The second bird is the  Spectacled Warber.  

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WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY

I saw this bird several times when Judith and I took our very early walk in Malawi however I was not sure what it was.  Jo hedges (blogger) and her husband Grant as well as their SIL helped me to ID it as a Steppe Buzzard.  

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WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY

I photographed this Great Egret when I was on a walk in a small safari park in Malawi with Peter and a guide.  This bird was on a river that runs through the park which incidentally also has a golf course which the animals are allowed to walk on. The Egret was quite a distance away hence the images are not so good.   i am linking with WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY.

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