by Dominic Chadbon | May 12, 2020 | Bird Watching |
In the 1980s, a pair of British researchers decided to see just how many birds live in fynbos. For two years they trapped and recorded fynbos birds at various sites across the mountains in the south-western Cape. One place was Swartboskloof – Black Bush Ravine –...
by Dominic Chadbon | Aug 20, 2018 | Bird Watching |
Right, that’s it. I’ve had enough of people laughing at me when I talk about the epic bird watching at Cape Town’s Strandfontein Sewage Works so I’ll prove it. Come on, grab your binoculars and let’s go and see what happens after we flush. I’d better make it clear...
by Dominic Chadbon | Dec 12, 2017 | Bird Watching |
When visiting an urban nature reserve just 30 minutes from the centre of Cape Town, you’d certainly expect to see frogs and birds and beetles but perhaps not hippopotamus, antelope and tortoise. Rondevlei Nature Reserve doesn’t even cover three square kilometres but...
by Dominic Chadbon | Oct 15, 2017 | Bird Watching |
Wait! I’m not kidding: drive around Cape Town’s biggest water treatment plant and you’ll think you’re on the shores of an East African Rift Valley lake. Great lines of pink honking flamingos, patrolling birds of prey and giant pelicans flying in to land like bombers...
by Dominic Chadbon | May 19, 2017 | Bird Watching |
Home to 8% of the world’s bird species, South Africa is an awesome bird watching destination but can Cape Town’s birding compete against established bird watching destinations such as the Kruger Park or KwaZulu Natal? It depends where you go. Bird watchers may...
