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Month: April 2015
St. Kitts
Saturday 11 April 2015 Roy Cowgill, Steve Davis and I visited St. Kitts – a private farm inland from Amatikulu on the North KZN Coast. The sugar cane farm has a number of dams which we birded. Waterbirds included numerous African Purple Swamphens, Common Moorhens and Spur-winged Geese. Black Crakes, Yellow-billed and White-faced Ducks, White-breasted…
Control Invasive Species
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Eshowe Weekend
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Coastwatch
BirdLife Port Natal sponsor work done by Coastwatch – in the interest of preserving the environment and habitat for birds. Please click here to see the Coastwatch Chairman’s report for 2014/15. To see a list of all the EIA’s that Coastwatch has commented on click here. It is an impressive list.
Darvill, Near Pietermaritzburg
Tuesday 21 April Sally and I went to see if we could find the Lesser Jacana which had been seen there recently. It was a pleasant day with a light breeze and we arrived midday. Dam 4 was the place to go so we headed there. There we found a family from Port Shepstone – Barry,…
Club History
We have a new page on the website titled “Club History”. Click here to be taken to this page. If any members can fill in any gaps in our knowledge then please advise any member of the committee.
Sheffield Beach Outing
Report by Mike White There were 20 of us for the Sheffield Beach outing on 18 April 2015. The weather was good as it gets. We were rewarded with some good sightings around the old crocodile farm ponds (no crocodiles fortunately) as well as on the road which cuts through part of the indigenous swamp…
Dolphin Coast April Newsletter.
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