Stork Buffet at uMkhuze

While driving around the uMkhuze Game Reserve one afternoon in March, we happened upon a seemingly insatiable Woolly-Necked Stork catching juvenile catfish in a drying mudpool. We watched the stork gorge itself on one fish after another, amazed at the ease with which it could grab its slippery, squirming quarry from the “all you can eat buffet table”, until there was no more splashing from the pool at his approach…

Woolly-necked Stork Buffet at uMkhuze

10 thoughts on “Stork Buffet at uMkhuze”

Joanne Sisco April 5, 2017 at 11:06 pm

On one hand, lucky stork! On the other hand, poor catfish!

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de Wets Wild Post authorApril 6, 2017 at 4:49 am

Sounds like a Simon and Garfunkel song “I’d rather be a stork than a catfish”

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1. Joanne Sisco April 6, 2017 at 2:01 pm
  
  hehehe! I can hear it 🙂
  
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rondomtaliedraai April 3, 2017 at 6:49 pm

Die natuur is darem wonderlik

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de Wets Wild Post authorApril 4, 2017 at 3:58 am

Ek kan nie met jou stry nie, Tina!

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Ginger April 3, 2017 at 5:44 am

wow how lucky for you to live in such an amazing place!

Would like to feature you on my new blog ‘Meet the Bloggers’? Link I have been pasting is not working, so I’m told. So easier if you visit my actual blog’s home page. See the post MtB and it should take you there, first post is ‘format’ … the questions I am asking.
No rush at all just in your own time and maybe 3 photos to go with the post?

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de Wets Wild Post authorApril 4, 2017 at 3:55 am

Thank you very much, Ginger, for the invitation, which we’ll seriously consider.

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1. Ginger April 4, 2017 at 7:53 am
  
  Thanks, up to you.
  
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