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Jul 20, 20201 min read

Capped Wheater | Jandre Verster

On the 5th of July, I took this photo of a Capped Wheatear in an open burnt veld with lots of termite hills scattered around. The crispy...

Jul 9, 20204 min read

Review of Sunset Lodge, Kuleni Game Park

Last year July I had a wonderful midweek holiday at Sunset Lodge situated in the 170-hectare Kuleni Game Park. The private reserve is...

Jul 6, 20204 min read

Book Review - 'Bird Without Border - An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year'

One thing that so many birders have in common is an abundance of bird books, if there is a new field guide on the market we just have to...

Nov 29, 20195 min read

Review of Umzolozolo Lodge, Nambiti Private Game Reserve

I recently had the privilege of staying two days at the five star Umzolozolo Lodge in the Nambiti Private Game Reserve near Ladysmith in...

Jul 23, 20195 min read

Mtunzini and Ngoye Forrest 20 July 2019

Birding allows one to transcend that which so often divides such as age, culture and all the other things that so often stand between us...

Oct 8, 20187 min read

Overly gorgeous days in the African bush

So after a long time, I thought after an amazing weekend of birding that it would be a good time start blogging again. With the rising...