Dear All Please find attached (click here) the movements of our Bearded Vultures: Jeremia, Pharaoh, Inkosi Yeentaka, Lehlwa, Mac, Kloutjie, Camo and Mollie and our Cape Vulture Bennie for the period 18-25 December 2016. A big thank you to Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife’s Pat Lowry and his Field Rangers and Ben Hoffman from Raptor Rescue for finding Shuttle’s…
Month: December 2016
Phillip Island
17 December 2016 Report by Sally and Paul Bartho Sally’s son David and his fiancee Katrina went to Cairns for the weekend on business while we were visiting in Melbourne. Their car was at our disposal. We took the opportunity to visit Phillip Island – about a two hour drive east of the entrance to…
Vulture Tracks
Dear All Please find attached (click here) the movements of our Bearded Vultures: Jeremia, Pharaoh, Inkosi Yeentaka, Lehlwa, Mac, Kloutjie, Camo and Mollie and our Cape Vulture Bennie for the period 11 – 18 December 2016. We have not been able to find Shuttle’s transmitter yet but will continue the search this week. I have attached an…
BirdLife Plett Newsletter
Click here for the December 2016 newsletter for BirdLife Plett, compiled and edited by Mike Bridgeford with contributions from other members, as credited in the newsletter. Please feel free to send this newsletter to friends and relations. It already goes far and wide: certainly to most of the bird clubs in the Western Cape and as…
Raptor Rescue Newsletter
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Vulture movements
Dear All Click here to see the movements of our Bearded Vultures: Jeremia, Pharaoh, InkosiYeentaka, Lehlwa, Mac, Kloutjie, Camo and Mollie and our Cape Vulture Bennie for the period 4 – 11 December 2016. The search for Shuttle in an open field has revealed no dead bird so we believe the transmitter has been dropped by the bird….
Springside Christmas Outing
Report by Elena Russell 3 December 2016 Our December/Christmas outing to Springside was lots of fun. There was an excellent turnout, with people coming and going before we could even say hello! The weather for once was hot and sunny and the birding was good. We split up into 3 groups and thanks to Terry…
Stainbank 7 December 2016
Report by Sandi du Preez It was extremely windy and the birds were not very co-operative, but we did manage to record 50 species (many only on call). Just before starting off on the walk we saw a Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird industriously excavating it’s nest on a dead branch. It did not seem at all concerned…
Cape and Bearded Vulture Tracks
Dear All Please find attached the movements of our Bearded Vultures (click here): Jeremia, Pharaoh, InkosiYeentaka, Lehlwa, Mac, Kloutjie, Camo and Mollie and our Cape Vultures (click here) Bennie and Shuttle for the period 27 November – 5 December 2016. Shuttle’s transmitter is stationery, so we will be investigating that today. Thanks and kind regards Sonja Krüger…