Birding at Paarl Sewage Works
Rather spontaniously, on Sunday morning Cathryn and I decided that we would take the trip through to Paarl Bird Sanctuary. I knew that she still need both White Faced and Fulvous Ducks…
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Twitching A Marabou Stork
If you read my previous blog entry, you would have seen that while attempting to twitch the Marabou Stork near Bredasdorp, the car I was driving managed to suffer a case of…
Grootvadersbosch – Day 2 (Forest Birding)
This is a continuation from my previous blog post. We woke up on the 2nd day of our holiday at around 6:30, in an attempt to head out into the Grootvadersbosch forest…
Grootvadersbosch – Day 1 (The Trip)
Recently Cathryn and I made the decision to postpone our desired trip up country to the KNP in order to focus on more Western Cape species, and with 1 May being a…
Pelagic Birding – A Day At Sea (21 April 2013)
Cathryn and I were lucky enough to be spending the day headed out to sea for some pelagic birding with Zest for Birds. We were both extremely excited to be introduced to…
A Visit to Intaka
The day started off as any 29’C day should, with an early morning rising. Well it was a partially early morning rising, we got out of bed at around 7:30 and got…
Strandfontein and Rondevlei – Autumn Birding
Last weekend, weather conditions prevented any birding – with gale force winds and intermittent rain from Friday through until Tuesday. Because of this, Cathryn and myself were both keen, should the weather…
A Day Out – Part 1 (Sir Lorwy’s Pass)
I will start this post by bringing your attention to the ‘part 1’ you see above. The reason this is a single part of a multi-part ‘series’, is because I spent almost…
Hoya ND400 9-Stop Filter Review
2017 UPDATE The original Hoya ND400 9-stop review article below was released in 2013, just weeks after I had purchased the filter. Since then I have shot thousands of landscape and seascape…
Northern RockHopper Penguin at Soetwater
I have been an awful birder of late, just horrible… I never twitched the Black Tern at Strandfontein, nor the Baillon’s Crake at Intaka Island. To be frank, I just haven’t had…
Storm Chasing in Cape Town
There has been an undeniable lack of updates over the past couple of weeks and that is frankly due to a variety of things on my part, and then of course a…
A Rough Week
The past week has been anything but easy, both personally and in regards to being out taking photographs. Without getting too much into the personal knocks, my grandmother passed away last weekend,…