Month: February 2020
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27th February 2020 – Eastville Park, Bristol
It may seem a bit mundane reporting on the same walk around Eastville Park but its all we had time for and anyway there’s nearly always something interesting to see. Today’s highlight was definitely a tree creeper. Tree creeper We heard, and generally saw, robins all round the park. Early on we saw a goldcrest…
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25th February 2020 – Eastville Park, Bristol
Back to reality! I decided not to be a wimp and got out for a walk this morning. Light showers were forecast and I must admit it wasn’t raining when I left home. But when I arrived at the lake at Eastville Park it began to rain and continued to pour until I got home.…
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Birds of South Africa January/February 2020
In this blog I have tried to compile a record of the different birds we saw on our holiday to South Africa in January and February 2020. We started our holiday with a safari trip to the Thornybush Private Game Reserve in Greater Kruger. Although the main focus of the trip was to observe the…
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10th February 2020 – Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Cape Town
We spent the last day of our wonderful trip to South Africa visiting the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden. Their website says “Kirstenbosch is acclaimed as one of the great botanic gardens of the world. Few gardens can match the sheer grandeur of the setting of Kirstenbosch, against the eastern slopes of Cape Town’s Table Mountain”.…
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6th February 2020- Kogelsberg Biosphere Reserve
For our last nature trip on our holiday to South Africa we booked our first ever guided birding trip through the company “Birding Africa” (https://www.birdingafrica.com/) to the Kogelsberg Biosphere Reserve. “Birding Africa” were very efficient in their administration and our guide David Swanepoel was superb. David quickly assessed our capabilities and designed a programme which…
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Friday 31st January 2020 – Strandfontein Sewerage Works, Western Cape SA
The Cape Flats Waste Water Treatment Works, or simply Strandfontein as it is known to birders, also forms part of the False Bay Nature Reserve. It really is a marvel for birders as you can drive around the gravel paths and see and photograph birds at close quarters. Strandfontein features more than 300 hectares of…
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