By papilloncharity on Skatehive
A first time for me to see spoon bill birds and flamingos together. The five white birds at the front are African Spoonbills (Plataled alba), and the six white birds at the back are Greater Flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus). We visited our local lake, and I have some good news to share. 75 hectares of this site will be declared as a nature reserve. It has already been endorsed, but there are still some processes that have to take place. No one is allowed to build anything in a nature reserve, and it was a great relief that I heard about this. We signed a petition some time back to prevent developers from turning the place into a residential and commercial space. Now, at last, the perfect solution has been found as a nature reserve with free nature lover's entry, will be great to visit. We know that the place would be a goldmine for developers, but sanity has prevailed as nature is more important, in our book at least, and there are many that think the same way like us. Especially the e