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Last month we posted a picture of a Little Grey/Brown Job and invited members to identify the small brown bird. Most of you got the correct answer: it is a Familiar Chat. Congratulations to those who correctly identified this chirpy fellow. One person suggested a Cape Sparrow, please look at the picture of a male and female Cape Sparrow… Continue reading LGBJ challenge

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It was one of those typical Hermanus autumn days, a bit chilly but sunny with a light breeze. Seven members pitched up to do their “Citizen Scientist” thing and two teams split up: one to the mountain side, the other towards the estuary side. The Klein River lagoon was almost breaching the beach so there were no sand flats… Continue reading Coordinated Waterbirds Counts (CWAC) report.

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The second bird in our LGBJ challenge is a bit more difficult. It’s preferred habitat is Afromontain and riverine forest. In South Africa it is found in Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and in a broad coastal stripwest to south-west Western Cape. This one was seen at the Harold Porter National Botanical Gardens in January in the wooded area along the… Continue reading Mystery LGBJ #2

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A small, dumpy, buff-brownish flycatcher with a pale throat, a short eyebrow in front of the eye, a mostly plain crown, and indistinct mottling on the breast. It prefers thicker woodland and the edges of evergreen and riverine forest, perching at lower and middle levels and sallying to catch insects, or occasionally sitting on the ground. High-pitched “tzeet” and… Continue reading Mystery LGBJ Bird #2 : Afican Dusky Flycatcher

Originally posted on Hermanus Bird Club:
A small, dumpy, buff-brownish flycatcher with a pale throat, a short eyebrow in front of the eye, a mostly plain crown, and indistinct mottling on the breast. It prefers thicker woodland and the edges of evergreen and riverine forest, perching at lower and middle levels and sallying to catch insects, or occasionally sitting on the ground. High-pitched “tzeet” and… Continue reading Mystery LGBJ Bird #2 : Afican Dusky Flycatcher

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Talk at the Hermanus Bird Club meeting on 17 May 2023 The speaker at our next club meeting will be the well-known and respected top birder, Lester van Groeningen, former member of the HBC committee. We asked Lester to tell us something about himself; this is what he wrote: “There are mainly two types of birders. Twitchers (we all… Continue reading Raptors in our back yard.