Monthly Archive: November 2010

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Bushveld Soap Opera

There’s a Dettol advertisement on TV in South Africa at the moment in which they are marketing a soap dispenser with a sensor that makes the soap squirt out without you having to touch...

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Southern carmine bee-eater

Carmine is the name of the red dye that was originally obtained from the cochineal beetle; described as the colour of tomatoes or rubies. Or blood. The name of a food dye used to...

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Namushasha to Kalizo Lodge

One of the delights of being a birder is the way events unfold when an unexpected bird puts in an appearance.  On our way from Namushasha to Kalizo Lodge, we were driving through the...

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Namushasha – a little piece of paradise

When you live inland in a desert environment, surrounded by leafless thorn trees and no grass or waterways, you sometimes long for the vibrancy of growth and moisture.  Strangely enough, to me, gazing over...

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Off the beaten track – Tsumkwe to Nokaneng

We’ve written before about how our love of birds has taken us all over the country.  We’ve just returned from yet another trip that was moulded around seeing breeding colonies of the strikingly beautiful...