Act Locally to make a difference Globally The richness of your backyard The theme for the club this year aims to make you focus on the amazing richness in your own garden, or favourite space, park or verge. And improve it! We would like people to develop checklists for their own garden, take photos of…
Category: Trip Reports
BeKZN Special Evening Event | Welcoming the Barn Swallows home
22 February 2023 BeKZN recently hosted a special event to welcome the return of the Barn Swallows to their roosting site at the Lake Victoria wetland. The event, which was held at the Mount Moreland Barn Swallow Viewing site attracted 53 members. During the summer these incredible little birds congregate each night to roost in…
BeKZN Sit-In | WESTVILLE SCOUT BOWL
16 February 2023 After wondering whether the weather would behave, we had a lucky gap in the rain and headed off early to the ‘Dog Park’ where some Nicolette and Ticky who arrived at 7am had already seen Magpie Mannikin. The rest of us had to wait nearly two hours before we saw them (with a juvenile)….
BeKZN Conservation | van Riebeek Wetland bird counts
14 February 2023 Early on Saturday morning 14 January, Steve Davis led another bird survey at van Riebeeck Park with Anneli’s support. An enthusiastic group of members of BeKZN joined this conservation initiative. Even at 6 am, it was already getting warm and very humid, but at least there were some birds about. Grassland species…
BeKZN Day Tripping | Sappi Stanger Mbozambo Wetlands
5 February 2023 Some background The Sappi Stanger wetlands, also known as the Mbozambo Wetland Reserve, is an important conservation area situated in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is a 300-hectare reserve that is owned and managed by Sappi, a leading producer of pulp and paper. The wetland reserve is located just outside the town of…
BeKZN Goonies go to Botanical Gardens
4 February 2023 The morning started off hot and humid at Durban Botanic Gardens, as we were greeted by seemingly hundreds of Egyptian Geese on the lawns. A group of BeKZN juniors (or Goonies – Goonie is the term for a juvenile albatross) and other keen ‘junior’ birders were raring to go, as we made…
You are invited – BeKZN AGM 2023
EDIT BeKZN 74th AGM – 25th February 2023 Members of BirdLife eThekwini KZN are invited to the 74th Annual General Meetingwhich will be held on Saturday 25th February at 09h00 for 09h30 at the Mount Edgecombe Country Club. Please RSVP using the link: https://forms.gle/2DZmmAwNtj77GjVq5 This is an important event in the annals of the club so we would really ask as many members as possible to attend….
BeKZN Conservation | Waterbird Count (CWAC) – Summer
22 January 2023 On Sunday 22 January BeKZN participated in the summer Coordinated Waterbird Count (CWAC). We started at the Umgeni Estuary and walked to the end of the Blue Lagoon groyne. Although it was near low tide, there weren’t many sandbanks exposed, and the few gulls and terns we saw were on the seaward…
BeKZN Sit-In | Amanzimtoti Bird Sanctuary
19 January 2023 Despite KZN being in the grip of a heat wave BEKZN Sit in still went ahead. I was asked to take the group as Jenny Norman was out of action. Jenny Pahl and I duly arrived at Amanzimtoti Bird Sanctuary at 7am and we were soon joined by Ros, Virginia, Sandy, Sheila and…