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That while most famous for its animals, the Kruger National Park is also one of the continent`s best birding destinations, with over 500 bird species recorded within the park`s boundaries. This is more than half of all the species recorded within South Africa. Read more...
Unusual visitor
Even though we find Hamerkops and their impressive big nests in the Kruger National Park, we never spotted them in our garden. Today a Hamerkop spend some time around our pool but every time we tried to get a photo, it disappeared. Finally we were lucky and could take a picture while the Hamerkop was ... Read more...
Birding Big Day 25-26 November 2011
The Hazyview-Kiepersol Conservancy is once again organising the popular Birding Big Day to coincide with National Big Birding Day. The purpose of this event is to not only to raise funds for the organisation; but also to get a rough idea of the species which occur within our area; educate non birders on the joys ... Read more...
Another Birding Event on the 11./12.Nov 2011
Another great birding day will take place at Induna Adventures on Saturday, the 12.Nov 2011. The first meeting will be at Sabie Valley Coffee on Friday, 11.Nov between 4 pm and 07:30 pm for entries and briefing with: -Talk on birds unique to the area -Small competition on bird sounds of the area On Saturday ... Read more...
International Vulture Awareness Day
Today is the International Vulture Awareness Day. This awareness day was started by the Endangered Wildlife Trust’s Birds of Prey Programme and its partners and associates to promote vulture conservation across the world. The aim is for each participating organisation to carry out their own activities that highlight vulture conservation and awareness. South Africa is ... Read more...
Unusual visitor
This morning we we wondering where the noice in the library came from: A brown-hooded Kingfisher was trapped in our house! During the day all the doors and windows are open and obviously the bird made a mistake. As soon as we dicovered the bird, we opened all the windows and he somehow found its ... Read more...
Birding Big Day
This years Birding Big Day was another success: 265 species where seen this year (2009 = 271 species) – combined species for the past two years is 316. 51 species identified last year were not on this year’s lists but this year there were 45 species which were not picked up last year. The Brown ... Read more...
Summer is here
It is really surprising because the last few days we had a lot of rain and we hardly saw the sun, but the Woodland Kingfisher is back. This morning we and our guests could hear the Woodland Kingfisher in the garden of Dreamfields Guesthouse for the first time after many months. Now the constant shrill ... Read more...
Birding Big Day 26/27.Nov
The Hazyview-Kiepersol Conservancy is once again organising the popular Birding Big Day to coincide with National Big Birding Day. The purpose of this event is to not only to raise funds for the organisation; but also to get a rough idea of the species which occur within our area; educate non birders on the joys ... Read more...
Sabi Valley Bird Club
Most of the people in and around Hazyview are passionate about wildlife and birds. Thanks to the efforts of a few people, Hazyview has now a bird club – the Sabi Valley Bird Club. The idea is to meet every second month to further birding experiences by field trips, guest speakers and get-together`s for interesting ... Read more...
