Having finished lunch on Sunday 20th January 2008 went outside to see where the next shower of rain would come from. We saw a big raptor, possibly Wahlberg's Eagle or Yellow-billed Kite passing low and close by but it flew behind some trees, out of sight. We went outside the garden fence to scan the trees. We detected some movement high up in a Makalani Palm Hyphaene petersiana. The raptor was perched on a Red-billed Buffalo-weaver Bubalo is niger nest. The binoculars came out and we watched. The bird was trying to plunder the contents of the nest colony, plucking at the twigs, trying to get at the chicks. This was not so easy, considering the material the Buffalo-weavers use to build their nests. During its efforts the Buffalo-weavers tried their best to scare it off. The raptor moved around the trunk, trying at another spot without success. It then flew off into another Makalani, some 300 paces further, to try its luck there.