Neil Gray's birds and other wildlife
Atlasville, 21 Jan 2005 Just back this evening from a week away. This is the 6th consecutive year that my wife and I have taken up our January timeshare week at Ngwenya Lodge, near Komatipoort in Mpumalanga. Our chalet commands a great view across the Crocodile River into the Kruger National Park on the far …
Atlasville, 29 Nov 2004 Just back from a long weekend away with fellow members of the East Rand branch of the Witwatersrand Bird Club to the Underberg district of KwaZulu-Natal where we were hosted by local birder Robin Guy, like me a geologist who had spent time on the Zambian Copperbelt. With only 2 days …
Atlasville, 17 Nov 2004 The birding grapevine was abuzz this morning with a huge mega-tick opportunity for those who could get there and see it. A first southern African and only the second all-Africa sighting of a rare vagrant (or just horribly lost) Asian Dowitcher. And where was this wader to be found? At Leeupan …
Atlasville, 09 Sep 2004 Just back from a 5-day break. Some years ago before they’d all departed to live and work in London I’d promised my three children, all well-travelled in South Africa, that I would take each of them to an African location of their choice. Of course, they all left before I’d made …
I was born and grew up in old coal-mining villages in County Durham in north-east England. My childhood interests were all related to Nature in some way – botany, astronomy, butterflies and moths, and learning all that I could about world geography. This last one was engendered by the stories told to me by my …
