Blog | The Birding Life

Jul 26, 20201 min read

Drakensberg Rockjumper | Richard Flack

A female Drakensberg Rockjumper jumps from one rock to the next at the top of one of South Africa’s most beautiful alpine passes. While...

Jul 24, 20201 min read

The muddy haunts of Mangrove Kingfisher | Hugh Chittenden

At the annual Mangrove Kingfisher count along a canal in the mangroves just south of Richards Bay, a couple of interesting points came to...

Jul 22, 20204 min read

Playing Survivor With a Flufftail | Mark Tittley

I have a confession to make - I am obsessed with photographing Flufftails. What else would account for the fact that I have 103 albums of...

Jul 20, 20201 min read

Capped Wheater | Jandre Verster

On the 5th of July, I took this photo of a Capped Wheatear in an open burnt veld with lots of termite hills scattered around. The crispy...

Jul 9, 20204 min read

Review of Sunset Lodge, Kuleni Game Park

Last year July I had a wonderful midweek holiday at Sunset Lodge situated in the 170-hectare Kuleni Game Park. The private reserve is...

Jul 6, 20204 min read

Book Review - 'Bird Without Border - An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year'

One thing that so many birders have in common is an abundance of bird books, if there is a new field guide on the market we just have to...