Dear All Please find attached (click here) the movements of our Bearded Vultures; Jeremia, Pharaoh, InkosiYeentaka, Lehlwa, Mac, Camo and Mollie and our Cape Vulture; Bennie for the past week. I am still awaiting the autopsy report from Kloutjie and will share the cause of his death as soon as I have it. Although it looked like…
Month: September 2017
Latest Cape and Bearded Vulture tracks
Dear All Please find attached (Click here) the movements of our Bearded Vultures; Jeremia, Pharaoh, InkosiYeentaka, Lehlwa, Mac, Camo and Mollie and our Cape Vulture; Bennie for the past week. Unfortunately no movements for Kloutjie from now on. We found him dead on a farm in the north-eastern Free State last week (see photo). Thanks to David…
Latest Cape and Bearded Vulture tracks
Dear All Please find attached (click here) the movements of our Bearded Vultures; Jeremia, Pharaoh, InkosiYeentaka, Lehlwa, Mac, Kloutjie, Camo and Mollie and our Cape Vulture; Bennie for the past week. It looks like Kloutjie has stopped moving for a few days so we will investigate this and update you next week – hopefully he has just…
Tanglewood Farm NR
Report by Elena Russell Saturday 2nd September 2017 Let’s not keep the best for last, on Saturday we had two rarities!! Firstly the Ayre’s Hawk Eagle up on the grasslands being harassed by a Yellow billed Kite – we have a lovely shot of ‘The Photographer’ aka Mike Stead taking brilliant photos of the Ayre’s,…
SAPPI Stanger
3rd September 2017 Report by Rex Aspeling We started on a perfect Spring day with 8 BLPN members and 5 guests. The water level at the Tranquillity Bird Hide (SAPPI Stanger Bird Hide) was very high and reduced the mudflats by more than 90%. The normal proliferation of returning migrant waders was substantially reduced. This…
Latest Cape and Bearded Vulture tracks
Dear All Please find attached (click here) the movements of our Bearded Vultures; Jeremia, Pharaoh, InkosiYeentaka, Lehlwa, Mac, Kloutjie, Camo and Mollie and our Cape Vulture; Bennie for the past week. Hopefully many of you participated in the annual Vulture Count Day as part of International Vulture Awareness Day on Saturday. It will be interesting to see…
Weekend at Oribi Gorge.
25th – 27th August 2017 Report by Jane Morris/Roseblade Oribi gorge always offers great birding with dramatic scenery thrown in for good measure and I for one was really looking forward to this weekend away. Despite predictions of rain on Sunday we were blessed with relatively good weather albeit a little chilly in the early…