Neil Gray's birds and other wildlife
Witton Gilbert, 09 Aug 2008 Arrived this evening with my wife to stay a few days with my father, having just completed a 6-day family trip to the north-west Highlands of Scotland. My wife and I, our daughter and son-in-law, and our 2 sons and their girlfriends all stayed at holiday cottages on the Attadale …
Sutton, 30 Jul 2008 My wife and I are in the UK for 15 days visiting family. I spent a good part of today, our first full day here, on a visit to the London Wetland Centre. Although I grew up and went to university in England I have spent all my working life so …
Atlasville, 28 Jul 2008 Just back this evening from Zambia, where I again stayed in the same first-floor room of a guesthouse in Kitwe, overlooking the garden. So just after sunrise and just before sunset I am able to watch the avian visitors to the garden at close quarters. Commonest resident, seen every day …
Atlasville, 30 May 2008 I finally took my Canon to Kitwe! Just back from Zambia from a second trip in 3 weeks to the Zambian Copperbelt project that I am now working on, alternating visits to Kitwe with trips to the DRC project that I am also busy with. I stayed in the first-floor …
Atlasville, 09 Feb 2008 Today, I decided to combine a drive along the Zaagkuilsdrift Road to the Kgomo-Kgomo floodplain with a visit to Borakalalo National Reserve. My last visit to Borakalalo had not been too good a day given the very wet conditions and the fact that the Klipvoor Dam was full to overflowing. So …
Atlasville, 08 Feb 2008 All good things come to an end! Got back this evening from a third overnight trip this year to Umtu. The project moves on to the next phase but my involvement is now complete. So no more time spent in the trailer under a camelthorn tree on a game farm on …
Atlasville, 18 Jan 2008 Just back from our annual timeshare week at Ngwenya Lodge, on the Crocodile River near Komatipoort in Mpumalanga. This the 9th consecutive year that we have been at Ngwenya from the second Friday in January and I have not before seen the level of the Crocodile River so high as this …
Atlasville, 01 Jan 2008 I finished 2007 with a visit to Marievale on 29th December taking my 2007 list to 434 species and started the New Year at Marievale this morning with an impressive 78 species in a little over 3 hours. It is mid-summer and Marievale is buzzing with the juveniles of many of the …
Atlasville, 17 Dec 2007 Paid 2 more visits to the exploration site in the Hotazel area in the past 2 weeks, one overnight stay and one full week as the next phase of exploration drilling has begun. The ‘green Kalahari’ is now truly that, with the veld covered in albeit sparse grass with wildflowers …
Atlasville, 14 Oct 2007 My visit to Marievale this morning showed how well the veld has recovered since the fire in mid-June, with new green growth everywhere, as today’s photos show. A completely new addition to my Marievale photography list was Common Waxbill. Among others I got some decent shots of Spotted Thick-knee and …
