Carl Sagan’s amazing perspective – we need our own in South Africa, to get thinking back on the social and political agenda. Who is willing to step up?
Monthly archives: March 2017
Strangely, even though I have been chasing birds around the bush for about five years now, and half seriously for at least three years, I had not photographed a black-faced waxbill (Estrilda erythronotos) waxbill until last weekend at Zaagkuildrift. This waxbill is a common species of estrildid finch found in southern Africa, especially […]
The black-faced waxbills of Zaagkuildrift
Last weekend (March 17-19) was spent providing food for mosquitoes and learning warblers with Etienne Marais and Sheleph Burger. Every year many millions of warblers make the journey from the northern hemisphere all the way to Africa, many of them overwintering (the northern winter) in South Africa. Etienne put on […]