The African Jacana is a colourful wader bird that forages on floating swamp-like vegetation in shallow water. The male prepares a nest and once a female has laid her eggs, it’s over to the male to do all the rest.

The male incubates and protects the eggs and once they hatch, he spends several months tending the young, shepherding the chicks as they grow to full independence. Wow a perfect father indeed.

Take a closer look at the care this male Jacana exhibits over the eggs and watch how he protects the eggs from a master egg thief.

A pair of Pied Kingfishers scuffle over a small fish along the Gariep River in the Richtersveld. One Pied masterfully caught its dinner and another Pied tried to steal it. Watch in this series of photos, how this drama unfolds and who will win in the end

I witnessed the most amazing sight of a Purple Heron having a 'poop' in mid air  over the Korsmans Bird Sanctuary and captured the entire event in a sequence of photographs.

In this sequence one can see the actual swirls and splashes of the 'poop' in the water, an awesome sight indeed. The Purple Heron is a very shy bird, and seeing it at all is one thing, but seeing it having a mid-air 'poop' was an entirely dirrefent and most intriguing experience.