Posted on the 15th November 2020
On Saturday 14 November 2020 members of BirdLife Overberg had a trip out to Napier to sample the birds that the gravel roads and recently harvested fields had to offer.
This type of trip diffe... Read more »
Posted on the 9th November 2020
(Pieter and Janelle Verster spent some time over a period of five days atlassing around the Botriviervlei. In the limited time available they were able to record 151 species once again illustrating... Read more »
Posted on the 24th October 2020
REPORT ON OVERBERG BIRDING – ONE DAY OF CWAC COUNTS AT THE DE HOOP NATURE RESERVE
Representatives of CapeNature requested BirdLife Overberg members to undertake regular quarterly CWACs (C... Read more »
Posted on the 10th October 2020
Birding at Witsand and Malgas
Report and images by Carl Swart
I needed a break from the daily routine in Kleinmond. So we, my wife and daughter – now a budding birder, and I decided t... Read more »
Posted on the 10th August 2020
BirdLife Overberg’s first official Covid-19 lockdown morning outing on Saturday morning took us along the Swartrivier road and the road along the Sonderend River to Greyton. Members from Klei... Read more »
Posted on the 1st July 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdown imposed on us by the government has had a major impact on all of our lives. BirdLife Overberg activities were swept off the table resulting in the c... Read more »
Posted on the 13th June 2020
Members and friends of BirdLife Overberg continued with regular bird counts in many areas of the Overberg during the month of June. This included the bi-weekly Saturday and Sunday bird count on the... Read more »
Posted on the 10th May 2020
Members of BirdLife Overberg and friends participated in the Global Big Bird Day count co-ordinated by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology on Saturday 9 May 2020. This was completely different to effort... Read more »
Posted on the 28th April 2020
BIRDLIFE OVERBERG LOCKDOWN BLUES – A MONTH OF GARDEN BIRDING
The spread of Covid-19 and the resulting lockdown imposed on us by the government has had a major impact on all of our lives. B... Read more »
Posted on the 23rd February 2020
BirdLife Overberg’s annual morning outing to Rooiels and the Harold Porter Botanical Garden was postponed in January due to gale force winds and yesterday was not much better. Twenty-four clu... Read more »
Posted on the 12th February 2020
Duncan and Natasha Barry requested us to develop a bird checklist for Riverton Stud and three small groups of BirdLife Overberg members jumped at the opportunity to spend two nights each at the his... Read more »
Posted on the 31st January 2020
(This report should be read against the background of the report on our previous visit and can be viewed below).
The second group of BirdLife Overberg members participated in a birding blitz at R... Read more »
Posted on the 7th January 2020
The Malans and Baughans took an 8 a.m. trip down the Klein River on the Lady Stanford with the skipper Peter Hochfelden, himself a birder and chair of the Stanford Bird Club. What an idyllic mornin... Read more »
Posted on the 2nd December 2019
We decided two years ago that participating in BirdLife South Africa’s birding big day for the full 24 hours is simply too tiresome and we have some questions about one’s carbon footpri... Read more »
Posted on the 24th November 2019
BirdLife Overberg's morning outing on 23 November was to Ian and Jessie Walton's Keurbos farm along the Highlands road in the beautiful Elgin Valley. Several participants spent a lot of tim... Read more »
