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Rain
A feeling of elation lingers as the soft rain which has fallen over the last two days, soaks into the parched earth and the raindrops glisten like jewels. The dam levels supplying Cape Town’s needs...
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Spring: new tweets
Spring has wafted in bringing some relief from the drought as swathes of wild flowers stretch across the veld. There’s an air of triumph about – a flap of wings and the squawking of little...
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Sweet Nectar
Sweet is the nectar that the little sunbirds and Cape sugarbirds enjoy flitting around the garden. WPC: Sweet
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Jackdaws and Fallow Deer
“And down flew a blackbird …. and pecked off her nose”. I couldn’t help thinking of the English nursery rhyme as a watched these cheeky Jackdaws (Corvus monedula) working over fallow deer plucking fur...
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Wild Baboons, Buck and Ostrich at Olifantsbos Beach, Cape of Good Hope
Winter at the Cape Peninsula can be petulant: wild and stormy with the Atlantic sea crashing in with dramatic drift and flow contrasted with the calmest sheerest-whisper-of-wind days. Returning after...
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Kelp Gull: Shell Gifts
It’s a quirky neighbourhood, this. At daybreak we’re often rudely awakened with a loud knocking on our patio glass doors: with a “ke-kah-ka-ee-ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha….” a cry so raucously loud, it sounds...
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