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 the case for me. My father owns a farm in Harding, southern KZN. So as soon as the schools were closed, we were off, going back…
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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 a two-person masked walk (our new normal) on yet another glorious July day. From the parking lot, we headed around the corner to walk through…
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 waterfall. It is very easy walking and comfortable from a Covid-19 perspective as there are very few people about apart from the odd cyclist that whizzes…
Birding in Krantzkloof Nature Reserve
19th July 2020 Cecily Salmon lives on the edge of Krantzkloof, the Uve Road side, which is across the gorge from the main entrance. She invited me to join her for a birding walk on Sunday morning (she said walk but it was more like a hike). The Uve Road entrance is still closed so…
Latest Cape and Bearded vulture Tracks
Dear All Please find attached (click here) the movements of our Bearded Vultures; Jeremia, Pharaoh and Mollie and our Cape Vulture N207, for the past week.
Latest Cape and Bearded Vulture Tracks
Dear All Please find attached (click here) the movements of our Bearded Vultures; Jeremia, Pharaoh and Mollie and our Cape Vulture N207, for the past week. Good news from our nest camera this week- Although the chick is not yet visible, it appears that it has hatched ! Kind regards Sonja Krüger https://www.facebook.com/projectvulturehttps://twitter.com/vultureproject www.http://vultureproject.org.za
Bahati, Zululand
July 14th to 19th 2019 Report by Sally and Paul Bartho After the Umlalazi weekend outing (some photos shown at the end of this report), Sally and I headed north to Bahati Game Farm. Here we camped for five nights. Bahati is very close to Bonamanzi – about half a kilometre on the opposite side…
Latest Cape and Bearded Vulture Tracks
Dear All Please find attached (click here) the movements of our Bearded Vultures; Jeremia, Pharaoh and Mollie and our Cape Vulture N207, for the past week. Please also find attached photos of our incubating bird from our nest camera. A lot more wool has been added to the nest this week. Kind regards Sonja Krüger…