Six Months in South Africa: Birding in Baviaans River Valley

Three days of spectacular scenery and birding in Baviaans River Valley, Eastern Cape, netted me new South African adventures and fifty avian species, including fifteen for my life list!   Vilis a...

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...