Sunday 23rd April 2017 By John Bremner Ten keen birders arrived at the waterworks at 7 am to be greeted with a heavy mist settled over the ponds, it was 11 deg C on my car’s temperature gauge, welcome to Petermaritzburg. It didn’t take long for the mist to start lifting and we started our…
Month: April 2017
Vulture Tracks
Dear All Apologies once again but due to some technical challenges, you are receiving the vulture movements for the past three weeks in this email. To see the tracks over the past weeks click on each of the following links. Vultures_3-10 April 2017 Vultures_10-18 April 2017 Vultures_17 to 24 April 2017 Hopefully we will be…
Honeyguides
There is a new paper about Honeyguides via the link below. Please send the link to anyone who may be interested. http://bo.adu.org.za/content.php?id=307 John Fincham
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Zululand
Report by Paul and Sally Bartho 1st to 5th April 2017 Following the report of a White-throated Bee-eater in Hluhluwe, Sally and I made an impulsive decision to see if we could find it. We decided to camp in Bonamanzi as a base and were allocated a site in their new campsite. Each campsite with…
Cape and Bearded Vulture tracks
Dear All For some reason it appears that my system has not emailed the Vultures on the Move files to all recipients for the past few weeks. I apologise for this and have attached the movement files for the past month for our Bearded Vultures: Jeremia, Pharaoh, InkosiYeentaka, Lehlwa, Mac, Kloutjie, Camo and Mollie and our Cape…
Durban Botanic Gardens
Botanic Gardens – Saturday 1 April 2017 Elena Russell I arrived about a minute too late to see a Black Sparrowhawk take a Red-eyed Dove over the parking area – only John and Ismail were the ‘early birds’ who got to see the action. We had a good turnout of members and visitors and set…