Neil Gray's birds and other wildlife
Atlasville, 09 Jun 2010 Just back from our trip to London for our granddaughter’s 1st birthday. I managed to get in a few birding trips either side of the big day as well as having the camera handy on family walks in some of the (relatively) local parks. The venues included the London Wetland Centre …
Atlasville, 28 May 2010 My wife and I decided to fit in a few days in the Lowveld before heading to London for our granddaughter’s 1st birthday. I managed to get bookings for 3 nights at Mount Sheba Lodge near Pilgrim’s Rest and 2 nights at Ngwenya Lodge. The ulterior motive was that I needed …
Atlasville, 18 May 2010 I am back in South Africa after a sixth and final work trip to Guinea. As this was to be the last time in Guinea for several of us, we decided to arrange another visit to see the chimpanzees in the Bossou Forest. This time of course it would be dry …
Atlasville, 05 Mar 2010 Back in South Africa for two weeks between Guinea rotations, I took the opportunity yet again to head for our ‘home from home’, Ngwenya Lodge. This time, however, travelling with us were our daughter, son-in-law (who is South African) and 9-month-old granddaughter, visiting from London, as well as our son-in-law’s mother. …
Atlasville, 21 Feb 2010 I am back in South Africa after a fifth work trip to Guinea. If you have been wondering what that work entails here is a shot of one of the drill rigs in action and two of the general scenery taken from that drill site. If I thought the …
Sutton, 04 Jan 2010 Having spent 2 weeks in Sutton for a family Christmas, on my last full day in the UK before returning to Guinea I decided that whatever the weather I would spend as much time as possible at the London Wetland Centre. The day dawned with the temperature a frigid -7°C. I …
Sutton, 21 Dec 2009 I returned to Guinea in mid-November for five weeks to find that the post-rainy season road clearing and grading was behind schedule and I would have to walk the roads to some of the sites I needed to get to. Hopefully that meant I might be able to photograph a few …
Atlasville, 30 Oct 2009 Another break in my Guinea work schedule and another trip to the Kruger Park. Usually visited on day trips from outside the Park, this time we stayed for the first 3 nights at Skukuza Camp for the very first time (other than a trip I had with the boys many years …
Atlasville, 18 Aug 2009 Arriving back in Guinea on 2nd July, I stayed overnight in Conakry, right on the coast, and picked up a couple of lifers with Western Reef Heron and Black Tern, while Hooded Vulture seemed very common in the urban area. Arriving next morning at Gbenko airfield I added Little …
Sutton, 28 Jun 2009 The remainder of my birding this trip was undertaken during family days out – the family have got used to me suddenly stopping to take bird photos. Three areas accounted for most of these sightings, Weardale in County Durham around Stanhope, Rookhope, Westgate and South Hanging Wells, Leeds Castle near Maidstone …
