and other photographic opportunities A live blog by Ticky and Nicolette Forbes This post will be updated with each day’s events so keep checking back. Thursday 13 November Leaving Durban…
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BeKZN Citizen Scientist involvement with the BirdLife Zululand Southern Banded Snake Eagle Big Weekend.
3-5 March 2023 The Southern Banded Snake Eagle has a limited and patchy distribution, stretching from southern Somalia to north-eastern South Africa. A resident in South Africa and listed as…
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…
Feature: Harare and Mana Pools, Zimbabwe.
October 2021 by Rob & Paige McLennan-Smith On Friday 15th October 2021 Paige and I flew with our daughter Kirsty and her husband James Hendry (photo 3) from Johannesburg to…
Stories of Bird Breeding at our Durban home.
23 October 2021 Two years ago Red-capped Robin-Chats (previously known as Natal Robins) built a nest and produced three chicks in a wall-planter at our back door. However, the chicks…
A “Bucket-list” Holiday of a Lifetime – Sentinel Mara Safari
September 2021 A feature blog from a member Ian A W Macdonald and Jane E Wiltshire {Editors note: Please click on images to see larger renditions} Jane and I have…
A Bucket List Trip – 5 weeks through Botswana.
May/June 2021 A member feature report by Rob & Paige McLennan-Smith Two years ago along with friends of ours, Alan and Olga Tennant, we started planning my 60th birthday present…
A first for southern Africa – A great excuse for a trip!
23 – 28 June 2021 A member feature report by Nicolette & Ticky Forbes (clicking on photos will bring up a bigger image) Shall we go? The announcement that a…
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…
Twitch Less to Enjoy Birding More
I am a big gaming fan, especially the big open world Role Playing or RPG Games. To purchase a game these days is fairly expensive, but these games can give…
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
17 – 29 October 2020 Let me start off by saying that Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (KTP) is an experience like no other and a destination that should be on every…
4M Birding Weekend trip report.
BLPN Members All! Manyoni Private Game Reserve is one of the largest (at 23 000ha) privately-owned reserves in Kwazulu-Natal, located on the west side of the N2 in the heart of Zululand,…
Birding at Durban Bay and Pigeon Valley in Glenwood
September 2020 Freed from the restrictions of the harsher phases of the lockdown and greatly encouraged by Crispin’s sightings at Pigeon Valley, Ismail and I returned to our birding haunts…
A Saturday Saunter down South.
Last month Mike and I (Jane) decided to head down south of Durban and see if we could pick up some early arriving waders . We started the morning at aManzimtoti…
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…