For those of you who missed it, the answer to What Bird Is This? #34 was the Montagu’s Harrier. Well done to everyone who pieced the riddle together.
For this one, the sighting in question wasn’t a single bird, but well over a hundred of them, passing high over Londolozi and heading north. A run of cold days combined with the shortening daylight seems to have flipped a switch and triggered the start of their long migration.
The photograph this month is deliberately inconspicuous, so you’re going to have to lean on the riddle a little harder than usual.
The Riddle of the Northbound Flock
We are not creatures of the trees,
Our home is on the inland seas.
A hundred strong we take to flight,
And point our wings to the northern light.
Drop your guesses in the comments. The answer will be revealed in this Sunday’s Virtual Safari.
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