Neil Gray's birds and other wildlife
Atlasville, 06 Jun 2008 I finally took the plunge and upgraded my Canon EOS 20D. The camera of choice is the EOS 40D. So off to the Kruger Park for the weekend 31 May -1 June where I put the new camera through its paces. Although based at Ngwenya Lodge just outside Crocodile Bridge Gate …
Atlasville, 28 Apr 2008 Paid a visit to the Marievale Bird Sanctuary to see if there were still any migrant stragglers around. Found a single Common Ringed Plover and three Little Stint already in breeding plumage that seemed to be all that remained of the large numbers of summer migrants seen there over our southern hemisphere summer months. …
Atlasville, 26 Apr 2008 My job now takes me for extended periods to the Zambian and DRC Copperbelt region, where to date I have still not had the luxury of a camera or better than a pair of pocket 10×25 binoculars – after all I am there for work and not birding! Nevertheless, I am just back from my …
Atlasville, 02 Mar 2008 Just back from a week away, having taken up our timeshare week at Sobhengu Lodge on the Nibela Peninsula at the northern end of Lake St Lucia from 22-29 February, for the first time since 2004. That year saw the level of Lake St Lucia at the lowest level in living …
Atlasville, 06 Nov 2007 Last Sunday, 4th November, I went on a birding day trip to Borakalalo National Reserve. The day got off to a great start as I managed to get my first and only photo (not that great I must admit) of an adult Red-chested Cuckoo, but then tailed off into mediocrity as …
Atlasville, 12 Oct 2007 Just back from two weeks in the DRC, where I managed a little more birding than my previous trips mainly because I walked close to 50 km in Miombo woodlands during my field work. I spent one night some 200 km from Lubumbashi camped on the bank of the Luapula River …
Atlasville, 03 Sep 2007 Just back from a 6-night trip to the Drakensberg, with 3 nights at Giant’s Castle and 3 nights at Kiara Lodge adjacent to Golden Gate Highlands National Park. The trip got off to a good start with Blue Crane, Secretarybird and a lifer in a pair of Barrow’s Korhaan all seen …
Atlasville, 25 Apr 2007 Just back from a week working in the Lubumbashi area of the DRC. I went with high hopes of adding a few birds to my Africa list, as this area boasts some 450 species, 10% of which are not found south of the Zambezi. Based at a guest house in Lubumbashi …
I returned last Sunday night (22 Oct 2013) from an 8-day birding trip to Argentina and Brazil (briefly). I stayed for 4 nights in Puerto Iguazú on the Argentinian side of the Iguazú Falls, with 2½ days birding in the Iguazú Falls National Park and a half day for a trip across the border to …
I had such success on my first birding trip to Kenya in late September 2010, that I planned a follow-up for October 2012. Again the trip was planned and all accommodation and transport bookings made for me by Moses Kandie (http://www.birdwatchingexpress.net), whom I contacted via the BirdingPals website – http://www.birdingpal.org – and had made the …
