Club outing to the northern eThekwini pentads An intrepid group of explorers consisting of twelve club members, Jenny Norman, Sheryl Flugel, Elton-John Bartlett, Penny de Vries, Mike du Trevou, Ronnie…
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Durban Botanic Gardens
We were blessed with a lovely sunny day for the outing, although it was extremely hot and humid. Eleven masked birders made their way to the dam to see what…
BLPN Nature Journaling for Birders – Fitting NJ into your Birding
Lockdown has been hard on some of us who love to explore new places and re-visit familiar favourites. Fortunately, nature journaling continues to provide a fun reprieve. Nine of us…
Brettenwood Coastal Estate
24th October 2020 We met at 06h30 at the Woody’s Community Centre. In spite of some getting lost and others arriving with flat phones and no access number into Brettenwood Mike…
BLPN Walk in Kenneth Stainbank
10th October 2020 The first BLPN walk since lockdown began on an overcast day with a hint of rain in the air and chilly breeze that blew. This did not deter…
After the Fun of the Bird Fair!
BLPN would like to inform you of our next exciting event… Details and rules of the competition were launched on the 15th September 2020 at http://www.blpn.org/photo 📷🦉📸 The Spring Swarovski…
Lockdown birding in and around the Simpson Family Farm, Harding, KZN
For most of use a national lockdown means staying at home, isolated from the rest of the world and not being able to move around very much. Fortunately this was not…
Birding at Kenneth Stainbank
Kenneth Stainbank Nature Reserve is another one of Durban’s gems and it is only 12 or so kms from the city. Este Shearar and I (Penny de Vries) went on…
Giba Gorge – Birding at last!
On a glorious but chilly day we (Jane & Mike Roseblade) arrived at Giba Gorge Mountain Bike Park at 7:45am and proceeded up the purple trail towards the dams and…