Virtual Safari: The Week in Video #45
We spend time with the Piccadilly female and her cub this week. Althought the cub is still nervous around vehicles, it is slowly starting to relax if we sit and …
We spend time with the Piccadilly female and her cub this week. Althought the cub is still nervous around vehicles, it is slowly starting to relax if we sit and …
It’s been a fairly slow leopard week, with long grass and only a couple of vehicles out making sightings hard to come by. Cloudy and windy conditions have made for …
A spectacular sighting of the Mhangeni pride at a waterhole (that somehow got overlooked in the archives), plenty of elephants – as is becoming the norm, although we introduce some …
We throw a few smaller creatures into the mix this week; a beautiful but seldom seen kingfisher, a family of tawny eagles and some wildebeest. Elephants, as has become common …
This week has been incredibly fruitful with a wide array of sightings, from the big to the small, the cute, the ugly and the outright beautiful. With the amount of …
My guests and I thought there was an African Spoonbill – which isn’t an uncommon bird in the area – but as we soon got closer out the waterhole, I …
It’s always wonderful to be in the bush at a this time of year as there is an abundance of new life everywhere you look. I don’t even have to …
Each year, BirdLife South Africa – a registered non-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation of birds – selects a particular species as ‘Bird of the Year’. This initiative aims to …
I enjoy this whole Memory Lane thing. Even five years later I can still remember most of these sightings like they were yesterday. In fact driving through the reserve with …
Almost a month ago exactly, Ranger Jess Shillaw spotted the nest of a Chinspot Batis nestled in the branches of a Milkwood tree on the banks of the Manyelethi River. …
The week of the Woodland Kingfisher! In 2019, our records state that the first one was seen on 16th November. This year, it was Thursday 19th November that the first …
First things first: the bird in this week’s ID Challenge: It was a Thick-billed Cuckoo. Heard more than they’re seen, they’re a good tick to have on your bird list. …
I remember seeing this bird for the first time. I was in the north of the Kruger with one of South Africa’s leading trails guides and top birders, and he …
A few weeks ago we ran a story on a pair of fork-tailed drongos that were nesting barely two hundred metres from the Londolozi camps. Three beautiful eggs were laid …
The proliferation of life at this time every year is utterly astounding. It’s the birds that have really stolen the show over the last ten days; nests have been discovered …