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Month: July 2015

Remembering The Berg – Golden Gate National Park

July 28, 2015July 28, 2015 Bryn De Kocks 1 Comment

While looking back through my hard drive photographs this week I came across a mostly unpublished series of images from a trip I took about 4 years ago now, to the Drakensberg. While at the that time I had flown to Johannesburg many times before, and spent time in Pretoria quite a lot, I had […]

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Winter Morning at Rietvlei, Milnerton

July 27, 2015July 27, 2015 Bryn De Kocks 1 Comment

After some very good rainfalls on Friday evening, the weather had cleared by Sunday and unlike the previous day, there was hardly any wind around. Not wanting to waste the rare pleasure of a warm and sunny winter’s day, we headed through to Rietvlei in Milnerton at around 09:30. I had previously been to Rietvlei […]

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The Buzzard Problem – Differentiating Steppe, Jackal and Forest Buzzards

July 15, 2015June 8, 2017 Bryn De Kocks 2 Comments

Truth be told, I first started writing this article over a year ago, and it was a lot more bloated than this piece is. Over the past several years I took a particular interest in raptors, and specifically Buzzards, more than likely because they were the birds that I came across most often in the […]

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Birding: Far More Than Just A Hobby

July 14, 2015June 8, 2017 Bryn De Kocks Leave a comment

The old class mates, social acquaintances or family members who have me on social networks see my birding related posts and their automatic assumption is more than likely, “He must really like looking at birds. It sounds boring”. Though the reality of the situation is far different than what they assume. While for many birdwatching […]

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12 Things I’ve Learned From Twitching

July 1, 2015April 1, 2020 Bryn De Kocks 7 Comments

I’ve been birding for three years now, having started in early 2012. And while I still lag behind many other birders in terms of dedication to twitching and to birding in general, over these years I have twitched between 10 and 20 birds (or rather attempted to) and driven thousands of kilometers in the search […]

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