Anyone from KZN following the irruption (eruption?) of Marabou Storks across the Westren Cape on SABirdNet, should also be on the lookout here in KZN.
Some years back (after SABAP1 and before SABAP2), there were a pair of Marabous that hung out at the free range piggery just off the R33 North of PMB (just after the Wartburg turn-off). In conversation with the piggery owner, he stated that they often went off foraging in newly tilled sugar fields, where nice ripe pig manure had been spread.
I have seen a single Marabou at the piggery again in recent months - which was reported to SABAP2 as an incidental. Last Saturday (21/02/09) I then saw a single bird stalking (or should that read storking) across a newly tilled sugar field, where nice ripe pig manure had been spread. This practice has been growing considerably across the KZN Midlands sugar belt of late. (One wonders if the sugar that we are now growing can still be considered kosher or labelled halaal?)
The gist of my now rather long-winded post is that if you should happen to be out and about in this area, look out for Marabou's in any newly tilled field.
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