Cape Town Guinea Fowl

[Gill-b]

This evening I drove past our local Guineas roosting spots. I snapped some quick pictures with a mobile phone which I hope you can see on them the Guineas sitting on the electrical cables? - you may have to zoom in on the images to see them. I will hopefully maybe get some better photos tomorrow? We will have to see.

You can just make out the top part of Cape Town's famous Table Mountain in the distant background.

Another roosting spot across the road from the spot in the first picture.

When you take a closer look at this picture, look all the way alone the electrical cables, all the way to the left. The houses blocked out more Guineas even further along the cables further left. Again Table Mountain, in the middle, in the distant background.

Please let me know if you find this interesting?

 

[allenw]

Neat pics, keep them coming.

 

[Gill-b]

So the weather, the elements and my equipment were against me this weekend, as I tried to take decent photographs of our neighbourhood Guineas going to roost. There were thick clouds, the wind was blowing and there was moisture in the air. Even Table Mountain was covered in a blanket of dark clouds and there was no sight of the sunset happening at the time while we were there. I did however give the photography a go and here are the results...
(Please click on the images and enlarge to get a better look at the Guinea Fowl.)

The above picture shows some of the Guineas entering the field from the top end.

This picture above shows the Guineas gathering in the centre of the field.

They then made their way to under one of the power-lines poles. If you look closely at where the bottom most power-line connects to the pole, to the left hand side, you will see the first Guinea to have flown up to the roosting spot.

I moved to a different position to try capture the birds flying up from a better angle. In the above picture you can see the first four Guineas up.

In this above picture, I hope you can just make out in the dark all the Guineas still milling around on the ground.

Really flapping hard.

The Guineas never flew up more than three at a time and where they landed was pretty much where they stayed put.

At this point there were more Guineas up on the power-lines than on the ground.

This above picture (which is actually two images joined into one) was taken from a completely different position so that I can show you how spead out the Guineas are on the power-lines. My previous position gave a deceptive view of how close they were to each other.

 

[Eggs_Over_EZ]

I love all your pictures of the wild guineas. They are beautiful.

 

[tranquiliti]

So the weather, the elements and my equipment were against me this weekend, as I tried to take decent photographs of our neighbourhood Guineas going to roost. There were thick clouds, the wind was blowing and there was moisture in the air. Even Table Mountain was covered in a blanket of dark clouds and there was no sight of the sunset happing at the time while we were there. I did however give it a go and here are the results...
(Please click on the images and zoom in to get a better look at the Guinea Fowl.)

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The above picture shows some of the Guineas entering the field from the top end.

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This picture above shows the Guineas gathering in the centre of the field.

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They then made there way to under one of the power lines pole. If you look closely at where the bottom most power line connects to the pole, on the left hand side, you will see the first Guinea to have flown up to the roosting spot.

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I moved to a different position to try capture the birds flying up. In the above picture you can see the first four Guineas up.

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In this above picture I hope you can just make out in the dark all the Guineas still milling around on the ground.

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Really flapping hard.

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The Guineas never flew up more than three at a time and where they landed was pretty much where they stayed put.

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At this point there were more Guineas up on the power lines than on the ground.

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This above picture (which is actually two images joined into one) was taken from a completely different position so that I can show you how spead out the Guineas are on the power lines. My position before gives a deceptive view of how close they are to each other.

Amazing! Thank you for sharing such detail here.

 

[Gill-b]

The above picture shows some of the Guineas entering the field from the top end.

The tree in this photograph is big and tall enough for Guineas to roost in, but there is a family of Pied Crows roosting there; and if you have been following my threads you may already know that Pied Crows actively hunt keets, so Guinea Fowl will definitely want to stay well away from them. Now that it is winter time, with no keets around, I hardly see even a single Pied Crow on our street compared to seeing them hunting in pairs almost every day in the Guinea Fowl breeding season.

 

[Eggs_Over_EZ]

I cannot stand crows. Ours are huge and they attack other birds. A mob of them went after a pileated woodpecker in our yard and injured it. My husband chased the crows off when he caught them attacking it. I know that they can keep hawks away but I would rather protect my birds another way then have crows.

 

[Gill-b]

Ours are huge...

Pied Crows are about 50 centimeters tall (about 20 inches) and weigh about 550 grams (just over 1 pound), so they are quite big too; and I think they make more noise than the Guinea Fowl... or maybe I am just being bias, hahaha.

 

[Gill-b]

You can post videos by posting them on a video hosting site such as YouTube and then posting the URL of the video here.

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New!

 

[R2elk]

New!

I've tried uploading videos to the gallery. They have to get approved and will not link directly to the post like the YouTube ones do.