Posted on the 23rd June 2019
Black-winged Kites
(Mating and nest building)
Today I was lucky enough to witness two Black-winged Kites mating in some low trees along the dirt roads out by Napier.
The female was a... Read more »
Posted on the 9th May 2019
This is the second report on Saturday’s quarterly big bird count and covers the area between Sandbaai and Cape Agulhas. Members of BirdLife Overberg again participated in our quarterly Global... Read more »
Posted on the 8th May 2019
(Report by Jenny Parsons, Aiden van Heerden and Anton Odendal).
Members of BirdLife Overberg again participated in our quarterly Global Big Day count co-ordinated by the Cornell Lab of Ornithol... Read more »
Posted on the 23rd April 2019
Trip report from Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park - April 2019
by Steve & Lee Peck
This April saw Lee and I visiting the Kgalagadi Park for the first time, and what a trip we had!
88 diffe... Read more »
Posted on the 11th April 2019
We spent a few days of casual birding at Koedoeskloof in the Ladismith district with Anita. It is extremely dry with some of the dams in the area not having water at all. Our water bird count did u... Read more »
Posted on the 7th March 2019
Members of BirdLife Overberg participated in the ninth quarterly Big Bird Count during February 2019. Teams of members birding in their “home patches” contributed from several areas of ... Read more »
Posted on the 1st March 2019
We presented the third regional Flight for Birders course during February for CapeNature employees at Algeria in the beautiful Cederberg Wilderness. We express our sincere appreciation to Rika du P... Read more »
Posted on the 28th February 2019
I had a spur of the moment visit to Kgalagadi 2 weeks ago – decided on Sunday and was in Twee Rivieren on Tuesday only booking on arrival so I received the pensioner’s discount. My firs... Read more »
Posted on the 21st February 2019
Wader Bash, West Coast National Park, 15th -17th February 2019
It was with some trepidation that Keith and I set off for the ‘bash’ – we were hoping for good team members and we... Read more »
Posted on the 11th January 2019
Seventeen brave-hearts participated in the BirdLife Overberg morning outing to the De Mond Nature Reserve on Thursday 10 January 2019 despite cloudy weather, howling winds and a tide not being supp... Read more »
Posted on the 15th December 2018
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
(Jenny parsons forwarded this wonderful report with awesome photographs. It was decided to post the images in large format for everyone to appreciate. So take your time ... Read more »
Posted on the 3rd December 2018
Napier Birding….
Unfortunately the proposed field trip to Napier was called off for today, however that didn’t stop the two Steve’s (Bailey and Peck) from popping out for a ... Read more »
Posted on the 27th November 2018
Members of BirdLife Overberg and a variety of other birders participated in BirdLife South Africa’s annual Birding Big Day on Saturday 24 November 2018. As usual it also formed part of BirdLi... Read more »
Posted on the 20th November 2018
Eighteen BirdLife Overberg members again spent five days at Kostaplentie, the fantasic Nature's Valley home of Buks and Annette de la Rey. The buildings are well appointed and marvelously equip... Read more »
Posted on the 7th November 2018
I had an appointment to take out guests on Monday morning and they could not do it on any other day. We went out birding despite dreadful conditions that featured poor light, strong winds and inter... Read more »
