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At 07:12, with a cool northerly breeze moving through the garden, a Cape Bulbul landed on the washing line and began preening. I raised the camera, then lowered it. Some observations are better recorded as three details: grey head, yellow vent, remarkably unt...
The Tree Is Often Easier to Identify Than the Bird On a calm winter morning in Cape Town, I spent ten minutes trying to locate a soft, repeated call in a strand of milkwood. The bird stayed hidden. The tree did not. That was the useful clue. Once I noticed th...
A Kalk Bay Garden Full of Sunbird Detail I enjoyed this short film about Steven Benjamin’s sunbird photography project in a Kalk Bay garden during lockdown. The setting is modest: garden plants, a nearby slope of Table Mountain, and the small daily movements...
A Bird Hide Is Not a Waiting Room This morning, at 06:18 beside a wetland reedbed, the wind was strong enough to flatten the grasses. I stayed still anyway. A Southern Red Bishop appeared for eleven seconds, carried on with its breakfast, and left me with one...
At 06:40, in a patch of fynbos with a light southeasterly wind, a Cape Robin-Chat delivered its clear song from a low bush - common birds remain excellent reasons to stop walking.