The Rock Hyrax – denizen of the mountains
We’re planning a trip to the Erongo Mountains next week (one of our favourite spots in Namibia) and because of the rocky nature of the environment, we know we will come across the dassie,...
Monthly Archive: June 2011
Bird of the Week – Week 77 – Cape bunting
The Cape bunting is a fairly small bird, just 16 cm in length, and is often to be seen foraging on the rocky and fairly open ground along quieter roadsides. It is a near...
Total Lunar Eclipse – 15 June 2011
During the early evening of 15 June 2011, Namibian time, the respective orbits of the sun, moon and earth carried them into an alignment, with the earth sandwiched between its closest celestial neighbours, such...
Bird of the Week – Week 76 – Yellow-bellied eremomela
The Yellow-bellied eremomela is found quite widely through the southern African region, and, indeed, through large parts of Africa northward to Sudan, although it is not found in the forests of the central and...
A cure for sea fever (take a Mola Mola marine cruise)
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel’s kick...
Bird of the Week – Week 75 – Cape cormorant
If you sit somewhere along the Namibian west coast, particularly in the vicinity of Swakopmund, and look out over the Atlantic Ocean at sunrise or sunset you are bound to see long chains of...
Oxpeckers – Heroes or villains?
It seems as though the jury is still out on whether the oxpecker is a hero or a villain. It is true that the oxpecker scavenges ticks off a wide variety of the larger...
Bird of the week – Week 74 : White-browed scrub-robin
The White-browed scrub-robin, with a length of around 15 cm, is much the same size as the other scrub-robins and out in the field it is often necessary to look at the birds quite...
Waterbuck – A shaggy buck story
Visit any of the game reserves in southern Africa and you are sure to see loads of buck of every description, especially impala and springbok. Whilst it’s great to see the common buck, it’s...
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