I spent Thursday morning with the Lakes Bird Club at the Witfontein forest reserver, near George. The day dawned rainy, and although we saw a suite of forest birds, light was too poor for photography.
On the way home, I got to exercise my trigger finger on a pair of juvenile Chanting Goshawks that were scavenging a dead hare from the road. One sat on a telephone pole, calling a lot. The other spent all the time picking at the road-kill. What I presumed to be one of the parents took flight when we approached initially, but returned later.
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| Adult and juvenile goshawks in flight |
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| one of the parents in full adult plumage |
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| The juvenile eating the hare |
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| blinking - they look like zombies when they do |
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| calling - but not to share |
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| when one of the other family members approached this defensive posture was displayed |
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| departing, clutching a talon-full of hare |
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