Expecting the unexpected in my 'patch'

Atlasing 3010_3005 has become very exciting, I have been submitting a card every five days, although this becomes a huge commitment I decided to 'go for it'

Yesterday I added a new species to my pentad list Scaly Throated Honeyguide.

Today I was busy working in my office, submitting atlas cards for someone else, when I heard a screeching call in my garden.....................no way Cape Parrot in my garden...................never, the closest Cape Parrots to Highflats are about 40km away in Creighton, so I got back to work finishing off the last card.

Then I heard the screech again, this time, this gran jumped up, grabbed her bins and ran for the door, the wind was howling outside, the leaves on my 100 year old Tulip tree were making so much noise I began to get irritated with all the noise, I was trying so hard to local some tiny squeak that would indicate where the parrots had landed!!


I started to scan my very large Tulip tree, and then I saw them, these two little darlings have a wonderful preen in my front garden. The very large 'yellow' tree (in the above pic) is the Tulip tree in my garden, about 30m tall!! I'm sorry about the quality of the parrot pics, I just have a mik en drik camera, and these Polly's were right at the top of the tree.

Later on during the afternoon I decided to get out for a drive, I found another new species for this pentad - Little Egret.

When I'm out atlasing I tend to expect the unexpected!!! Well thats how I enjoy my atlasing.