Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve 

Spring 2001 Flowers

Excellent rainfalls were recorded this Winter around Zandvlei and the flowers are looking very good. Some plants are being seen which have not previously flowered for a number of years.


  The Whitethroated Swallows are back.


                                       
                                        Close up of a Satyrium carneum flower.
                                       


  A Satyrium carneum. (orchid family)                 A closer view.


Monadenia bracteata. (orchid family)              The flowers are insignificant.  Holothrix villosa. (orchid family)



  Dischisma ciliatum                                                 Wachendorfia parviflora



  Zygophyllum flexuosum


  Romulea rosea                                      Zaluzianskya villosa or blue drumsticks



  Babiana tubulosa



  The vygies have regained a place after the removal of the 'exotic trees'. The dead wood
   is the disintigrating pile of removed 'exotic trees'. The pile would have been triple its present height.



  Our African Fish Eagle being chased by two Hartlaubs Gulls.

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