Story and image: Ed Meyer
The upland game birds in the mountain fynbos above Voëlklip have had a very successful breeding season in 2015-’16.
Cape Spurfowl with youngsters.
Four or five pairs of Cape Spurfowl regularly visit our garden on the edge of the Fernkloof Reserve and have all produced at least two clutches of chicks from August through to January.
Initial clutch size has been on average five, however, the chicks seem to be most vulnerable to predators in the first few weeks before they can “flutter fly”. Clutch numbers raised to maturity average between two and three.
We recently witnessed, sadly, a mature young spurfowl being spectacularly caught by an African Goshawk, taken up into our red gum tree and devoured in our full view – a special sighting.
Pair of Helmeted Guineafowl with second clutch of chicks.
Helmeted Guineafowl have also bred successfully this past season. A very…
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