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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...
A Better Field Companion for Curious Naturalists A useful technology update for Cape Town walks: iNaturalist’s new Computer Vision and Geomodel v2.33 now covers 122,046 taxa, including more than 1,500 additions. I would still treat its suggestions as a starti...
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 Winter Evening at Cabo Beach I am usually more interested in what is moving in the shrubs around the V&A Waterfront than in crowded evening plans, but this local listing caught my attention for a different reason. The Feastival Winter Edition is scheduled f...
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 Wildflower Is Not a Souvenir CapeNature has issued a useful warning for anyone who walks, photographs, or spends time in protected areas around the Western Cape. Between April and June 2026, it recorded 10 biodiversity-related cases and 48 fines, covering o...
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.