by Bryn De Kocks

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Rock Kestrel Flight
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Birding Milestones and Misses – A Few Outings Worth Remembering

Since our recent trip up to Beaufort West, we’ve both been inspired to get out there and chase some new birds. Over the past few weeks, Milli even reached a major milestone, her 300th Western Cape bird. This post is a roundup of a few of those outings and the birds (and moments) that made…

lesser double collared sunbird
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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 co-operate – to head out and try get some birding done. Come Saturday late morning, we found ourselves looking at the options. The…

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Chasing Dusk: A Guide To Predicting and Photographing Sunsets
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Chasing Dusk: A Guide To Predicting and Photographing Sunsets

Nothing brings a landscape to life quite like phenomenal lighting. Sunset photography is popular, and sometimes just being in the right place at the right time will give you the biggest advantage in creating the photograph you’ve been envisioning. Thankfully being in the right place at the right time isn’t just a result of luck….

Chasing Snow in Ceres – 16 July 2017
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Chasing Snow in Ceres – 16 July 2017

The weather forecasts for the past week had been showing a strong cold front pushing through the Western Cape on Saturday evening into Sunday morning. Of particular interest with this front was the forecasted freezing levels, which suggested that we may be in for a good snow event across parts of the country. With the…

Chasing Mammatus and Other Local Adventures
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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 some surf photography again. The swell forecast was good and the surface wind was forecast as a moderate South Easter, usually good for…