BEKZN Birding Diary – February 2023 – Now Published Online Compliments of the Season to everyone – 2023 is getting started with some fantastic walks and a great talk to kick off the New Year… Remember members attend all activities FREE (unless a specified special event) and visitors are always welcome with a R50 bird…
Category: Atlassing
BeKZN Birding Diary-January 2023 published
BEKZN Birding Diary – January 2023 – Now Published Online Compliments of the Season to everyone – 2023 is getting started with some fantastic walks and a great talk to kick off the New Year… Remember members attend all activities FREE (unless a specified special event) and visitors are always welcome with a R50 bird…
BeKZN Birding Diary-November published
NOVEMBER 2022 – Now Published Online Just in time for the weekend – no excuses for not knowing what is going on. Remember members attend FREE and visitors are welcome with a R50 bird donation to the club’s conservation fund. Summary below but you can read details and book at https://blpn.org/activities/activities-2022/ Please note that some…
BeKZN’s Colour Me Green, eThekwini Challenge Winner
A Stayover at Bonamanzi Game Reserve. You can now self-drive Bonamanzi is a privately owned Game Reserve, 4000 hectares in extent and recognised as one of the best birding destinations in KZN offering a biodiverse mix of Sand Forests, Savanna & Wetland Areas. I got the chance for a second visit courtesy of winning the…
BeKZN’s Colour Me Green eThekwini Atlas Challenge 2021
Final tallies and we have a Winner! The first atlas challenge undertaken by the club during 2021 aimed to colour the 53 pentads which lie fully or partially within eThekwini Municipality ‘green’ during 2021 to maximise and update information on bird distributions in the municipal area. To gather data, volunteers select a geographical ‘pentad’ on…
BE KZN Atlas Challenge – Colour Me Green, eThekwini #3
Club Atlas Adventure #3 – the Outer-West 30 May 2021 The organised monthly club atlas event was held on Sunday 30 May 2021. The group included Steve Davis, Penny de Vries, Ros Conrad, Jenny Norman, Anneli Mynhardt, Ronel Curtis on her first outing as a new member – Welcome to the Club Ronel, Noleen Turner,…
A Member’s Report on her BE KZN Colour Me Green, eThekwini 2021 Challenge Experience.
by Penny de Vries 5 May 2021 I was very excited to hear about the Colour Me Green project at our first bird club meeting of 2021. I thought I knew how to atlas as I’ve been doing it since Birdlasser was first released to iPhone, in about 2016. Nicky took us through the protocols…
BE KZN Atlas Challenge – Colour Me Green, eThekwini #2
Club Atlas Adventure #2 17 April 2021 The organised club outing to atlas pentads in the eThekwini municipality by Nicolette and Ticky Forbes unfortunately had to be brought forward to Saturday 17 April. I hate having to change dates but unfortunately a significant work commitment in Eshowe on Friday and Saturday 23-24 April made this…
Colour Me Green, eThekwini
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 Herr, Rob McLennan-Smith, Cecily Salmon, Mark Liptrot and Derek Robins joined Nicolette and Ticky Forbes to bird two of the northern pentads in the eThekwini…