The Sand Martin (Afrikaans name, Europese Oewerswael) is an uncommon summer visitor to the Western Cape being a Palearctic migrant.
While visiting the West Coast national Park we were delighted to come across one of them.
- Acraea Butterfly
- African Black Duck
- African Clouded Yellow Butterfly
- African Common White Butterfly
- African Darter In His Breeding Colours
- African Dusky Flycatcher
- African Dusky Flycatcher Feeding Young
- African Green Pigeon
- African Hawk Eagle
- African Grey Hornbill
- African Hoopoe
- African Jacana
- African Monarch Butterfly
- African Paradise Flycatcher
- African Pipit
- African Stonechat
- African Swamphen
- African Wattled Plover
- Agapanthus
- Amur Falcon
- April Fool
- Arrow-marked Babbler
- Artichoke
- Australian Water Dragon
- Baboons
- Baboon Spider
- Baillon’s Crake
- Bar-Tailed Godwit
- Bar-Throated Apalis
- Barn Swallow
- Bateleur
- Bateleur Eating A Snake
- Bateleur Steals Kill From Tellow-Billed Kite
- Battle Between A Chameleon And A Boomslang
- Bauhinia Tomentosa
- Bearded Woodpecker
- Bell Miner
- Bitterbush
- Black-Bellied Bustard
- Black-chested Snake Eagle In Flight
- Black-Collared Barbet
- Black Crake
- Black-Crowned Night Heron
- Black-Crowned Tchagra
- Black-headed Canary
- Black-headed Heron
- Black-Headed Oriole
- Black Heron
- Black-Necked Grebe
- Black Oystercatcher
- Black Swan
- Black Stork
- Black-winged Kite
- Black-Winged Kite With A Meal
- Black-winged Stilt
- Blacksmith Plover
- Blacksmith Plover Hybrid
- Blacksmith Plover With Eggs
- Blue Crane
- Blue-eared Starling With Millipede
- Blue Flax
- Blue Lilly Pilly
- Blue Pansy Butterfly
- Blue Waxbill
- Bokmakierie
- Brimstone Canary
- Broom Cluster Fig
- Brown-Hooded Kingfisher
- Brown-Throated Martin
- Brown Snake Eagle
- Brush Turkey
- Buffalo Calf Drinking
- Buffalo In The Mist
- Buffalo With A Green Nose
- Buffalo Wound Being Cleaned
- Burchell’s Coucal
- Burchell’s Starling
- Cancer Bush, Sutherlandia Frutescens
- Candelabra Lily
- Cape Batis
- Cape Bulbul
- Cape Bunting
- Cape Canary
- Cape Cobra
- Cape Dwarf Chameleon
- Cape Glossy Starling
- Cape Glossy Starling Sunning Himself
- Cape Honeysuckle, Tecoma Capensis
- Cape Grey Mongoose
- Cape Longclaw
- Cape River Crab
- Cape Robin-Chat
- Cape Shoveler
- Cape Snow Everlasting
- Cape Sparrow
- Cape Sugarbird
- Cape Teal
- Cape Turtle Dove
- Cape Wagtail
- Cape Weaver
- Cape White-Eye
- Capped Wheatear
- Cardinal Woodpecker
- Carmine Bee-Eaters Catching Prey
- Carpenter Bee
- Caspian Tern
- Chameleon
- Channel-Billed Cuckoo
- Chestnut-Vented Tit-Babbler
- Chinspot Batis
- Cicada
- Clivia Miniata
- Cobra Lily
- Common Chaffinch
- Common Cuckoo
- Common Dotted Border Butterfly
- Common Fiscal
- Common Fiscal’s Food Larder
- Common Greenshank
- Common Moorhen
- Common Ringed Plover
- Common Pin Spiderhead
- Common Starling
- Common Tern
- Common Waxbill
- Common Whimbrel
- Coral Tree
- Corn Cricket
- Cotton Stainer
- Crested Francolin
- Crested Pigeon
- Crossbreed Blacksmith Lapwing
- Crowned Lapwing
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Curlew Sandpiper In Breeding Colours
- Currawong, Pied
- Damara Canary
- Dance Of The Blue Cranes
- Dark-capped Bulbul
- Double-Banded Sandgrouse
- Dung Beetle
- Dusky Moorhen
- Dusky Sunbird
- Dwarf Coral Tree
- Dwarf Mongoose
- Eastern Barn Owl
- Echidna, Short-beaked
- Egyptian Goose
- Eland
- Elephant Tusker – Masthulele
- Emerald-Spotted Wood Dove
- European Bee-Eater
- European Roller
- European Roller Caught A Dung Beetle
- Fairy Bells
- Familiar Chat
- Figbird
- Fireball Lily
- Flap-Necked Chameleon
- Flappert Lark
- Fleur De Lys Morae
- Forest Canary
- Fork-tailed Drongo
- Four Sriped Mouse
- Franklin’s Gull
- Gabar Goshawk Juvenile
- Galah
- Giant Kingfisher
- Garden Orb Weaver Spider
- Giant Plated Lizard
- Giraffe
- Girdled Lizard
- Glossy Ibis
- Golden-Breasted Bunting
- Golden Orb Spider
- Grapevine Moth
- Graskop Agapanthus
- Great Crested Grebe Courting
- Great Crested Grebe Feeding Youngster
- Greater Flamingo
- Greater Striped Swallow
- Green-Backed Heron
- Green-Backed Heron Fishing
- Green Tree Locust
- Green Wood-hoopoe
- Grey Butcherbird
- Grey Hornbill Eating Seeds Out Of Hanging Pods
- Grey Headed Flying Foxes
- Grey-headed Gull
- Grey Heron
- Grey Plover
- Grey Teal
- Grey Tit
- Grey-Winged Francolin
- Grysbok
- Hairbell
- Hairy Field Spider
- Hamerkop
- Hardhead Duck
- Hartlaub’s Gull
- Hartlaub’s Gull With A Fish
- Heady Maiden
- Heliophila Coronopfolio
- Helmeted Guinea Fowl
- Hippopotamus
- House Sparrow
- House Sparrow Australia
- Impala
- Impala Lily
- Impala Males Fighting For The Harem
- Impala With Deformed Horn
- Jackal Buzzard
- Jacobin Cuckoo
- Jameson’s Firefinch
- Juvenile Ground Hornbill
- Juvenile Malachite Kingfisher
- Juvenile African Fish Eagle
- Juvenile Southern Carmine Bee-eater
- Kapok Bos
- Karoo Lark
- Karoo Prinia
- Karoo Scrub Robin
- Kelp Gulls Attack To Protect Their Eggs
- Kittlitz’s Plover
- King Protea
- Klaas’s Cuckoo
- Klipspringer
- Knob-billed Duck
- Koppie Foam Grasshopper
- Kori Bustard
- Kori Bustard Taking A Sand Bath
- Kudu
- Lachenalia Rubida
- Lappet Moth Caterpillar With Host Eggs
- Large-Billed Lark
- Laughing Dove
- Leopards
- Leopard Tortoise
- Lesser Flamingo
- Lesser Striped Swallow
- Lesser Swamp Warbler
- Letaba Camp – Melville Guest House
- Levaillant’s Cisticola
- Levaillant’s Cisticola With A Spider
- Lighted Matches – Septulina Glauca
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Lion Eating Buffalo Calf
- Little Bee-eater
- Little Bittern
- Little Corella
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Pied Cormorant
- Little Stint
- Livingstone Daisy
- Lizard Buzzard
- Lone Buffalo
- Long-horned Twinspur
- Long-Tailed Paradise Whydah
- Lotus Lily
- Macleay’s Swallowtail Butterfly
- Maccoa Duck
- Magpie
- Magpie-Lark
- Magpie Shrike
- Malachite Kingfisher
- Malachite Sunbird
- Male Buffalo
- Marabou Stork
- Marsh Harrier
- Marsh Pagoda
- Martial Eagle
- Masked Lapwing
- Meadow White Butterfly
- Mopane Worm
- Moss-Leaved Bellflower
- Mountain Dahlia
- Namaqua Chameleon
- Natal Flame Bush
- Natal Spurfowl
- New Holland Honeyeater
- Nile Crocodile
- Noisy Miner
- Nyala
- Olive Thrush
- Olive Woodpecker
- Openbill Stork
- Orange-Breasted Sunbird
- Ostrich
- Pacific Black Duck
- Painted Lady Butterfly
- Pale Chanting Goshawk
- Paper Wasp
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Pelargonium capitatum
- Pelican, Australian
- Pelican, Great White
- Pelicans
- Peregrine Falcon
- Pied Avocet
- Pied Crow
- Pied Kingfisher
- Pied Kingfisher With A Fish
- Pied Starling
- Pied Wagtail
- Pincushion Protea
- Pink-Eared Duck
- Pin-Tailed Whydah
- Pin-Tailed Whydah With Overgrown Beak
- Powerful Owl
- Protea Scarlet Butterfly
- Puff Adder
- Purple Heron
- Rainbow Lorikeet
- Rainbow Skink
- Rattling Cisticola
- Raven Australia
- Red-Backed Shrike
- Red-Backed Shrike With A Spider
- Red-billed Oxpecker
- Red-Billed Quelea
- Red-billed Teal
- Red-Breasted Swallows
- Red-Capped Lark
- Red-crested Korhaan
- Red-Eyed Dove
- Red-Headed Weaver
- Red-knobbed Coot
- Red Knot In Breeding Colours
- Red-rumped Parrot
- Red-Veined Dropwing Dragonfly
- Reed Cormorant
- Rock Hyrax, Dassie
- Rock Kestrel
- Rock Monitor
- Rosella, Crimson
- Ruff
- Sable Antelope
- Sacred Ibis
- Sacred Ibis Splishing and Splashing
- Saddle-billed Stork
- Sanderling
- Sand Martin
- Sandwich Tern
- Scarlet Ribbon Protea
- Sea Rose
- Secretarybird
- Serrated Hinged Terrapin
- Sesamum Alatum Flower
- Sickle Bush
- Side-Striped Jackal
- Silver-Bottom Brown Butterfly
- Smoky Orange Tip Butterfly
- Sombre Greenbul
- South African Shelduck
- Southern Black Flycatcher
- Southern Black Korhaan
- Southern Boubou
- Southern Carmine Bee-eater
- Southern Double-Collared Sunbird
- Southern Grey-Headed Sparrow
- Southern Ground-Hornbill
- Southern Masked Weaver
- Southern Pochard
- Southern Red-Billed Hornbill
- Southern Red Bishop
- Southern Red Bishop In Transition
- Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
- Speckled Pigeon
- Spekes Hingeback Tortoise
- Spring At Intaka Island
- Spoonbill
- Spotted Eagle Owl
- Spotted Hyaena
- Spotted Thick-knee
- Spotted Turtle Dove
- Spur-Winged Goose
- Squacco Heron
- Steppe Buzzards And Their Colour Varieties
- Stinkweed
- Strand Roos
- Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo
- Sunsets Of Kruger National Park
- Superb Fairy Wren
- Swainson’s Spurfowl In The Sun
- Swee Waxbill
- Swift Tern
- Tawny Eagle
- Tawny Frogmouth
- Temminck’s Courser
- The day a Purple Heron ate a bird
- The Call Of The Fish-Eagle
- The Duelling Malachite Kingfishers
- The Monkey And The Marula
- Those ferocious lions
- Three-Banded Plover
- Thyme Honey-Myrtle
- Tigertail Dragonfly
- Tilapia
- Tractrac Chat
- Trees Of Kruger National Park
- Tropic of Capricorn
- Variable Bushwillow
- Vervet Monkey At Letaba
- Violet-Backed Starling Female
- Violet-Backed Starling Male
- Wahlberg’s Eagle
- Wandering Glider Dragonfly
- Waratah
- Water Monitor
- Warthog Cuddles
- Waterbuck
- Water Thick-knee
- Western Barn Owl
- Western Cattle Egret
- Western Cattle Egret Eating A Lizard
- Whiskered Tern
- White-Backed Mousebird
- White-backed Vulture
- White-Barred Acraea Butterfly
- White Berkheya, Disselboom Flower
- White-breasted Cormorant
- White-Breasted Cormorant Overture To Love
- White-Crowned Lapwing
- White-Faced Heron
- White-Faced Whistling Duck
- White-Fronted Bee-Eater
- White-Fronted Bee-eater With Dragonfly
- White-fronted Plover
- White-Headed Stilt
- White-Necked Raven
- White Stork
- White-Throated Canary
- White-Throated Swallow
- White Throated Swallow And Nest
- White-Throated Swallow Feeding The Young
- Wildebeest, Blue
- Wild Dagga
- Wild Foxglove
- Wild Geranium
- Wild Mushrooms, Toadstools and Fungi
- Wild Peach Tree
- Willie Wagtail
- Wood Duck
- Woodland Kingfisher
- Wood Sandpiper
- Woolly-necked Stork
- Yellow-Billed Duck
- Yellow-billed Egret
- Yellow-Billed Kite
- Yellow-Billed Kite With Kill
- Yellow-Billed Stork
- Yellow Bishop
- Yellow Canary
- Yellow Oxalis
- Yellow Pansy Butterfly
- Zebra
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1 Comment
RC
18 December 2016Imho the bird in your pictures is a Banded Martin (Afrikaans name, Gebande Oewerswael of Oewerswael) Riparia cincta, it’s African cousin