12 April 2025 For our April bird club day trip, we set out to bird two fantastic venues in one day: Thurlow Nature Reserve and Karkloof Conservancy. The turnout was…
Category: Trip Reports
🌿 BeKZN Birding Diary – June 2025 🌿
📅 Sunday 1 June @ 07h00BeKZN Walks …👣 | Everton Conservancy (hosted by Tayla van Rees)Hard terrain | 3 km walk with river crossingsA forest and grassland gem – expect Blue-mantled…
Soaring for a Cause: Bird Clubs Power Big Wins for Conservation
Bird clubs are far more than social gatherings for birders—they are engines of change for conservation. Through collective passion and purpose, they raise vital funds and awareness for the birds…
BeKZN Outreach | Hillcrest Camera Club
A Tale of Intersecting Passions | Birds, Travel & Photography by Nicolette ForbesTUESDAY 6 MAY @18h00 A talk that covers three intersecting passions and weaves a story about the importance…
BeKZN Walks…|Durban Botanic Gardens
15 March 2025 As Africa’s oldest surviving botanic gardens (Est. 1849) it is currently Africa’s oldest surviving botanic garden and remains a national and local city asset actively contributing to plant conservation…
BeKZN Stake Out/Sit-In |Krantzkloof Nature Reserve 🌻
13 March 2025 A large number of people gathered together for the monthly stake-out near the small dam. We were quickly entertained by an Amethyst Sunbird at its nest. Many Crowned Hornbills were very…
BeKZN CONSERVATION | VAN RIEBEECK PARK BIRD SURVEY
9 March 2025 On Sunday 9 March we did a BirdLife eThekwini KZN bird survey at Van Riebeeck Park on the Bluff as part of the continuing series. After all the recent…
BirdLife KZN Forums are Fun!
A birder feature from a BirdLife KZN Midlands member The preliminary notification of the next BirdLife KZN Forum (March 2025) has just come through. The day of Forum talks and…
BeKZN CONSERVATION | SUMMER CWAC COUNT
16 February 2025 On Sunday 16 February the summer waterbird count (CWAC) took place with members of BirdLife eThekwini KZN at the Umgeni River estuary and Durban Bayhead Natural Heritage Site. The…
BeKZN Day Tripping 🌞🌻 | VERNON CROOKES NATURE RESERVE
15 February 2025 In the days leading up to the Vernon Crookes Nature Reserve outing, the weather reports didn’t look promising. It seemed like we would be sleeping in instead…
BeKZN Stake Out/Sit-in|aManzimtoti Bird Park
13 February 2025 We all gathered down by the overgrown dam where we quickly realized that we weren’t going to get many birds facing that way, so we turned around…
BeKZN Walks… |Kenneth Stainbank Nature Reserve
8 February 2025 After a few days of continuous rain, we were lucky to have a break in the weather for our walk on Saturday morning which was partly cloudy…
BeKZN Atlas | Colour Me Green, eThekwini challenge.
BeKZN Atlas Adventure #12 – Monteseel, KwaXimba, and iSithumba November 2024 With the onset of the summer, comes the migrants and the rains. This trip was supposed to go out…
BeKZN WALKS…|UMBOGOVANGO NATURE RESERVE
16 November 2024 The morning began with friendly chatter as the group gathered in the parking lot. A lovelly mix of newer and more experienced birders, those with long life…
BeKZN SIT-IN | WESTVILLE SCOUT BOWL
10 October 2024 A large turnout of 22 people joined us on this outing. We settled down near the very over vegetated dam but the emerging termite alates kept the…
BeKZN WALKS … | SUNHILL ORCHARD
5 October 2024 Since the Sappi wetlands is out of commission as far as birding is concerned and has been my go-to spot for hosting my annual bird club walk,…