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from Charlie Moores Blog about Birding the Cape For my second trip to South Africa in just three weeks, this time to Cape Town (the first was to Johannesburg), I decided to hire…

Hi All, Whilst on tour last week a few Lesser Kestrels were seen on the plateau of Therons Pass hawking insects in the cut wheat fields. I assume they were from the Ceres…

Hi All, just returned from an 11day trip with 3 great friends to the Northern and Western Namibia and thought I should post a short note about our birding etc. Route was Cape…

I have just returned from a 10 trip to the dry west and Kalahari Nat Park with South African clients. The weather was warm with a max of 37C but mostly around 30C…

This bird is unknown. Seen at a water trough between Kenhardt and Brandvlei. Very pale buffy colour and came to the water trough at the same time as 12 Sclaters Larks. Could it…

Hi All, I did a quick one day trip to the flowering Tanqua on Saturday 26th August. The veld was STILL in excellent shape, in fact new flowers were in evidence from the…

I have again been to the Tanqua with clients this past week and what a show it still is! Another set of yellow flowers are open, this being the third since July. The southern…

Flowers in the Tanqua are out early this year, click to see more images. Flowers in the Tanqua are out early this year, click to see more images. Click on the images to…

I took a group of   clients birding at the end of April to the Northern Cape to locate some of the endemics and other   local birds. After planning it, it turned…

I took a group of friends into the Western Cape mountains in the late afternoon so as to be around when the night birds emerged. The target was the Cape Eagle Owl which…

This past weekend we had our annual 24 hour ‘Birding Fun Day’ at our Tygerberg Bird Club. This is an event to encourange and teach other not so good birders when and how…

Yesterday we took a client to Papendorp (near Vredendal on west coast, Western Cape) to see the American 'Little Blue Heron'. We arrived and first scanned the mudflats and channels for some time…

I spent a pleasant 3 days in the Tanqua Karoo with 5 clients last week. The weather was very comfortable for this time of the year and we had no cold wind to…

The morning started cool and rainy... but cleared up enough to take some early morning shots along Clarens Drive to Rooi-els and Bettys Bay. The road around Klein Hangklip was still in shadow…

The Orange-breasted, Southern Double-collared Sunbirds and Cape Sugarbirds were in their finery at Kirstenbosch as it was their breeding time. Many Erica and Protea species were in flower and made the approach to…