Neil Gray's birds and other wildlife
Atlasville, 16 Oct 2006 After spending the nights of 6-7 October in Mapungubwe, my wife and I headed for the Kruger National Park via the most direct route, to Musina and on to the Pafuri Gate, the northernmost entrance into Kruger National Park. We needed to enter the park and make our way south to …
Atlasville, 16 Oct 2006 Since seeing Mapungubwe National Park for the first time on the bird club outing in June last year I have wanted to take my wife to see this gem, one of South Africa’s newer national parks. So when the opportunity for a week away arose we combined Mapungubwe with the Kruger …
Hotazel, 22 Sep 2006 I’m doing an awful lot of commuting from home to Hotazel and back, a distance of 610km each way. So for a bit of variety I decided to break the journey down to Hotazel yesterday. I left home earlier than usual and stopped off at the Barberspan Nature Reserve between Sannieshof and …
Hotazel, 15 Sep 2006 Finally! When I came back to camp this week I brought a second spotlight from home. Knowing where the resident African Scops-Owl perches in the camelthorn every night – well within 3 ft of the same spot – I set up the two spotlights last night trained on that branch, one …
Atlasville, 08 Sep 2006 The African Scops-Owl has been putting in a regular appearance the past ten days, always about 90 minutes after sunset and on the same branch of the camelthorn overhanging my trailer roof every time. This is either a regular nocturnal perch (I haven’t been able to locate it during the day) …
Atlasville, 26 Aug 2006 Our daughter is visiting from the UK to make final arrangements for her wedding next March here in South Africa. Her fiancé is a South African whom she met in London. Her fiancé’s mother from Port Elizabeth is also staying with us. So we arranged a timeshare mid-week at Ngwenya Lodge …
Hotazel, 24 Jul 2006 This past weekend I made a second trip to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, again staying in the main Twee Rivieren Camp. As on my last trip I had two full days in the park so I opted for one day driving north to the Namibian border at Mata Mata Camp on …
Hotazel, 11 Jul 2006 Seven weeks on from my first visit I made the trip from Hotazel to Augrabies again. Two days in the Augrabies Falls National Park is not enough to do it justice so this time I made sure that I explored those parts of the Park that I had missed first time …
Hotazel, 16 Jun 2006 If you have read my ‘About me’ page you will know that one of my maxims is ‘make the most of being where you are as you may never be back’, so since I am now based in the Northern Cape for a while I have already started that ball rolling …
Hotazel, 16 Jun 2006 If you have read my ‘About me’ page you will know that one of my maxims is ‘make the most of being where you are as you may never be back’, so since I am now based in the Northern Cape for a while I have already started that ball rolling …
