{"id":333,"date":"2018-09-23T19:14:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T17:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/a-knysna-turaco-on-dempseys-deck\/"},"modified":"2018-09-23T19:14:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T17:14:36","slug":"a-knysna-turaco-on-dempseys-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/a-knysna-turaco-on-dempseys-deck\/","title":{"rendered":"A Knysna Turaco on Dempsey&#8217;s Deck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dempseys.co.za\">We<\/a> often spot these beautiful\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knysna_turaco\">Knysna Turacos\u00a0<\/a>flitting from branch to branch, tree to tree in the distance, seldom near and\u00a0seldom stopping long enough for us to really see them clearly, let alone to capture them on camera. They tend to be shy and skittish. Recently we heard a strange sounding thud on our deck; to our amazement it was a Knysna Turaco that had made a crash landing on our deck and was\u00a0gingerly negotiating\u00a0its steps\u00a0on the coffee table. We observed in disbelief. It stayed a long while and then moved to the top of the couch, a few seconds later it moved\u00a0into a tree very close by where it stayed for an unusually long time. We managed to\u00a0take a few photographs of this unusual visitor to our deck. When the bird is in flight, the flash of crimson under those wings will take your breath away. Oh to be in the right place at the right time to capture that sight on camera.  <figure id=\"attachment_3498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3498\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/?attachment_id=3498\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3498\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3498 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/001kl-350x282.jpg\" alt=\"knysna turaco on coffee table\" width=\"350\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Knysna Turaco on coffee table<\/figcaption><\/figure>  <figure id=\"attachment_3499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3499\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/?attachment_id=3499\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3499\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3499 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/004l-350x312.jpg\" alt=\"Pretty painted eye of the Knysna Turaco\" width=\"350\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pretty painted eye of the Knysna Turaco<\/figcaption><\/figure>  <figure id=\"attachment_3500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3500\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/?attachment_id=3500\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3500\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3500 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/005-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"turaco settles at a safer distance \" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turaco settles at a safer distance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often spot these beautiful\u00a0Knysna Turacos\u00a0flitting from branch to branch, tree to tree in the distance, seldom near and\u00a0seldom stopping long enough for us to really see them clearly, let alone to capture them on camera. They tend to be shy and skittish. Recently we heard a strange sounding thud on our deck; to our &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,11,8,10,9,12],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","tag-dempseys","tag-nelson-mandela-bay","tag-news","tag-port-elizabeth","tag-sights","tag-tourists","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}