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…
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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…
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…