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Hi All, Did a trip which was specifically for our local endemics last weekend for a Canadian client, in fact he is no 6 in Canada! Called on Rooi-els early, for a change…

Hi all, I did a few tours in the past 2 weeks around the Cape. Birds calling or displaying was a rarity and birding skills and tricks to lure them out had to be used…

Hi all, I took a client to Tanqua on Tuesday. We arranged to leave at 1pm, so as to bird on the way to Ceres our overnight stop. With all the hot weather…

Hi All, Had a fantastic 17 day trip with one client which started at Cape Town on 13th September and went via Bushmanland/Kalahari/West Coast/Tanqua/Garden Route. The Bushmanland area still had flowers, maybe they…

Hi All, I did a few day trips for Birdwatch Cape this past week, one which went to Rooi-els on the East coast of South Africa, in the Kogelberg Biosphere region. Rooi-els:When we…

Hi All, I did a “Habitat” & Tanqua trip over 2 days recently. The target was of course the Tanqua, but Tanqua in one day does not work well. So we added a…

On a recent visit to Western Namibia with friends, one of my bogey birds was Herero Chat which I had missed twice before. We called on Spitzkoppe Reserve to look for the bird…

At the Western Cape Birding Forum meeting recently, Neil Smith (from Birdlife SA) outlined the serious threat to Verlorenvlei and the Verlorenvlei Valley arising from the application by Bongani Minerals for tungsten mining…

Spent a casual day in the Langebaan/Vredenberg area yesterday. We were too late for the incoming tide at Geelbek (11.30 Cape Town tide was full + - 1.00pm) and only saw 2 Ospreys…

I spent 1.5 days in the Tanqua birding with a Birding Eco Tours client. We drove straight to the Tanqua on Monday and birded till it was dark and returned to Ceres for…

Spent Saturday 21 June birding Habitat areas in the Western Cape with a client and saw the following of interest: Dolphin Beach pans: Black, Little, White-rumped and Alpine Swifts, and a pair of…

Hi All, Spent Saturday birding habitats with a client and saw the following of interest: Dolphin Beach pans: Black, Little, White-rumped and Alpine Swifts, and a pair of Greater-striped Swallow, second time I…

I spent a short while in the Tanqua yesterday with a client and friend. Even though she had been there before and seen the normal Karoo birds she had never seen or heard…

Spent a looong day yesterday birding for specials in the Tanqua with 7 clients.  Weather was good for birding, not cold at all.  The aim was to find the Burchells Courser and Cinnamon…

I took 2 UK clients on an 8day trip around the West Coast/Karoo/Overberg last week looking at birds and flowers amongst other things. Weather was good but cool and we always seemed to…