Birding In Betty’s Bay and Rooi Els
After our recently failed attempt at finding the Protea Seedeater at Paarl Nature Reserve, Monique and I headed through to Harold Porter Nature Reserve in Betty’s Bay after someone reported seeing a…
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Road to 300 – Cloud Cisticola
Birding for me started out of my interest in photography, but soon became more closely tied to my interest in collecting things, especially rare items. The fact that birding allowed me to…
Chasing Raptors at Helderberg Nature Reserve
I recently went through to Helderberg Nature Reserve with Monique to do some birding and help her grow her life list. We went through quite early in the morning, and it was…
Christmas At The Breede River – Day 3
The final day at The Breede started early, just before sunrise I got up and exited the tent and decided to make the most of what time was left there. After walking…
Christmas At The Breede River – Day 1 and 2
This entry comes a bit late, though I have been wanting to share some words and images about my adventures over Christmas for a while now. My family tends to take an…
Chasing Fires in Somerset West (3 January 2017)
At lunch time on Tuesday I left the house to pick up my girlfriend, but as I opened the front door I was greeted with flames whipping into the air on top…
Rarities Galore at Strandfontein
While scrolling through my news feed on Facebook last Tuesday, I came across a post by Glynis Bowie asking for identification on a bird she had seen the previous weekend at Strandfontein…
A West Coast Adventure – Part 2
This is a continuation of the previous post. We woke up fairly on Thursday and first looked at the forecast, so we could decide our next plan of action. We had paid…
A West Coast Adventure – Part 1
Both Monique and I have been planning to get away for a while now, and while our initial plans were to head east and camp in the Wilderness, with winter now fairly…
Pelagic Birding Off Cape Point – (24 April 2016)
My last pelagic trip was three years ago. Funnily enough, it was three years ago almost to the day (3 days off). In my last entry I managed to amass plenty of…
Chasing Mammatus and Other Local Adventures
I woke up on Sunday morning with Monique doing a “Women’s Walk” in Cape Town, and thus had the morning to myself and had planned to head through to Kogelbay and try…
The Beauty of Botrivier
Just outside of the Houwhoek area of the Overberg is a small farming town by the name of Botrivier. People traveling to Caledon from Cape Town would be familiar with the general…