Six Months in South Africa: Notes from Addo Elephant National Park

A self-drive game drive yields wildlife notes from Addo Elephant National Park and photos of warthogs, red-necked spurfowl, ostrich, elephant and red hartebeest.   After shopping in Port Elizabet...

Six Months in South Africa: Tree Dassie Trail, Addo Elephant National Park

  Hiking Tree Dassie Trail, Addo Elephant National Park, took us through an indigenous coastal rainforest and offered sightings of forest birds, such as Cape batis, chorister robin-chat, black-ba...

Six Months in South Africa: Coordinated Avifaunal Roadcount

A Coordinated Avifaunal Roadcount in Eastern Cape’s Smaldeel Conservancy offered spectacular views of Eastern Cape veld and the Amathole Mountains and provided sightings of antelopes, a bat-eare...

Six Months in South Africa: Winter Birding at Fort Fordyce Nature Reserve

Spectacular views of the Amathole Mountains capped a day of winter birding at Fort Fordyce Nature Reserve that yielded up-close views of Afromontane forest birds, including glorious male collared and ...