Dear All Please find attached (Click here) the movements of our Bearded Vultures; Jeremia, Pharaoh, InkosiYeentaka, Lehlwa, Mac, and Mollie and our Cape Vultures; Bennie and N207, for the past week. This breeding season we have found the nesting sites of InkosiYeentaka and Lehlwa. These individuals were fitted with transmitters as first year birds in 2009, and…
Month: November 2017
Drak Gardens
Report by Sally and Paul Bartho 17 to 19 November 2017 The decision to go to the Drak Gardens was made the day before we left. I had never been there and Sally always wanted to go back. We chose a great weekend to go. It had just snowed – and the mountains were well…
Latest Cape and Bearded Vulture tracks
Dear All Apologies for this email being sent late today, but I spent the day looking for Camo in Golden Gate Highlands National Park. After a number of days spent looking by the SANParks Field Rangers, we finally found a transmitter today. Luckily no dead bird, so we hope Camo is still well and just…
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 Vultures; Bennie and N207, for the past week. The recently released is exploring quite a large area. Camo was never an very active bird but has not moved for a few days, so…
Rockjumper Family Birding Weekend
Rockjumper Birding Adventures is organising a birding weekend in February at Champagne Sports. BirdLife South Africa will benefit from some of the proceeds of the registration fee, and clubs have been encouraged to publicise this great weekend. Please see attached documents, (Click here for itinerary) or go to: http://www.rockjumperbirding.com/family-weekend-getaway-with-champagne-sports-birdlife-and-zeiss
St Lucia revisited.
Report by Paul and Sally Bartho 4 to 7 November 2017. On the spur of the moment Sally and I decided to revisit St Lucia – ever hopefully of finding the specials we missed 2 weeks previously. The specials being the Eurasian Oystercatcher and the Gull-billed Tern. We stayed at Sugarloaf campsite – taking advantage…
Shongweni Dam Outing
Report By Elena Russell 4 November 2017 David Swanepoel took some lovely photos. He is a very good birder (from the Cape) – one day he could take over Saturday outings!!! Also some great photos from John Bremner and Mike Stead. I drove up in mist and had visions of Alverstone and the mist not…
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 Vultures; Bennie and N207, for the past week. Bennie has luckily started moving again. Kind regards Sonja Krüger http://www.projectvulture.org.za/ https://www.facebook.com/projectvulture https://twitter.com/vultureproject