After finding the Mega tick in the Little Crake, I had time to spare in Cape Town. As Tokai Forest was around the corner I headed there in the hope of locating both Common Caffinch and Cape Siskin, but sadly dipped on both. I did find a new butterfly there which will be added soon. [...]
I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to go and see the Little Crake at Clovelly in the Western Cape. This was one of those twitches that i would not have wanted to miss as the chances of this bird appearing in SA again is very remote. Reports from this morning has indicated that [...]
I have just completed creating the pages for just over 500 species that I have photographed. Click on the Photo List in the Trips and Lists section on the right. This also includes photo pages of the mammals, insects and spiders that I have photograped. Reptiles and amphibians wil be added in due course.
In my quest to find as much life as I can in my garden I have added a few more species today. Insects: Black Sugar Ant (Lepisiota capensis) Brown House Ant (Pheidole megacephala) Hide Beetle (Family Dermestidae) Grass Moth (Crambus ssp) Spiders: Jumping Spider (Family Salticidae)
This Female Cardinal Woodpecker has become one of my newest resident birds in my garden. She is very shy and one only finds her if you are lucky enough to hear her tapping away in the trees, most often the dead wood in the huge White Stink-wood tree. I managed to catch her in mid [...]
We introduced an application and website called Konkoit, where birders can use a mobile application to log all their sightings while birding, with the ability to use GPS to record the exact location of the bird. The sightings can be synchronised to the website, where an automated life list is created, and all your sightings [...]
The White-faced Scops owl was one of those owls that i had longed to see and add to my list. It seems that everyone were finding them but me. I managed to see this bird earlier this year on the Zaagkuil Drift Road, but not in the way that I had hoped for. The owl [...]
For a while i had been trying to get just a photo of an African Rail, but this elusive species had only shown glimpses of itself to me in the past. Over Easter at Marievale I had the first opportunity to get a shot of one, but a slip of the camera later, I had [...]
In April I spent a few days south of Tzaneen at the Coach House in Agatha. This was mainly a little break for us without the little one, but I managed to get a bit of birding done. Fortunately the staff at the hotel could direct me to the well know site for the Bat [...]
There are three Bulbuls that visit our gardens depending on where you live. Along the Western Cape coast you will find the Cape Bulbul, the central part of the country has the Red-eyed Bulbul and the eastern parts the Dark-capped Bulbuls. These lively birds all have yellow vents and are noticed for their exited call [...]
