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 camping trip through Central and Northern Botswana and taking our time about it, my longest holiday ever away from a busy medical practice…
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Pigeon Valley Sit-in
Pigeon Valley Sit-in15th June 2021 Ten club members joined this social sit, with a couple of them arriving (pre-planned) about an hour after the others. We all settled in a little clearing just past the sign board. The very early members were treated to a view of a Black Sparrowhawk sitting and calling on a dead branch just…
Back to an Old Favourite – New Germany Nature Reserve
5 June 2021 We met at 8am on a Saturday morning; a very respectable time to meet. In winter, it’s hardly worth setting off much earlier [Editor’s comment – although a few, including this editor/chair as one of the younger, older members may beg to differ-I do like my first light moments and dawn chorus…
Colour Me Green, eThekwini
Club outing to the northern eThekwini pentads An intrepid group of explorers consisting of twelve club members, Jenny Norman, Sheryl Flugel, Elton-John Bartlett, Penny de Vries, Mike du Trevou, Ronnie Herr, Rob McLennan-Smith, Cecily Salmon, Mark Liptrot and Derek Robins joined Nicolette and Ticky Forbes to bird two of the northern pentads in the eThekwini…