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May 2009:

We  have  moved to Port Elizabeth, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The  first  month  was chaotic  but  now that  we  have phones , cars and  a place to stay things are  returning back to normal. My   wife  works  and  I  spend  most  of my days studying  for the examination in September which will allow  me to  work here. This  leaves  me  time  to go  birdingand my lifelist is  inceasing steadily. Knysna lourie, Giant Kingfisher, 3-banded Plover are all common local  birds, but  I   had never seen them  before, let alone  photograph them. We managed to  get  out into  the  countryside on weekends  away a few times; we spend  a long  weekend in the Mountain Zebra Park which  was beautifull as well as peacefull. We walked  3 1/2 kilometer  strech of the ottertrail which I  felt  for days after (I am certainly  not fit enough  to do the complete trail) and stayed over in the Tsitsikamma  national park. Addo  elephant  park in just  45 min  away  and great  for  a morning  visit. All in all it`s  great  to be here and  there  is more then enough  to see and do  to keep us  busy.

April 2009:

no news for a while as we have been bussy moving to South Africa!  however you  can expect many more new pictures in the next months! watch this space...

January 2009:  my picture of the egret  became runner-up in the anual bird picture competition on birdguides! I was very chuffed!

November 2008

Hundreds  of  Golden Plover   have  gathered in the  Nene  valley  to   spend  the  winter  and  attracted a  few peregine falcons and  a lot   of  bird watchers / photographers. I   amanaged  to get  a  few  shots  of   one of the falsons,  check  out   my "birds of  prey " folder!

October  2008

A  holiday   to  Majorca in the  mediterrenean  poved   succesfull as  far   as  birdwatching  was  concerned ( not  so muchsun however!)

Booted eagle, hoepoe  and  purple  swamphen  were  among  the  birds  seen. Especially Albufera national park was  a good  spot   with lots  of  excellent  hides  and  photographic  opportunities. Pics are larger  in bird folders.

September 2008

Finally a pic  of  a kingfisher. It`s  not  brilliant, but it`s a start!

31-08-2008 Update website, lots   of  new  pictures and  new  lay out.

August  200

All  my   hard  work  has  finally  paid  off, I   have  won something  for  the   first   time ever!

In August  this year  I  won  photo  of the week on http://www.birdguides.com  for  my  picture of  a juvenile little  egret that  managed to  catch  a  reedwarbler! This happened  at  Summerleys  ,  where   I  was in the  main hide  with a few  other  people (I  know  some one else  will have  exactly   the  same picture!).  We  were  watching     families  of  reed-  and  sedge warblers feeding  their  families as this   egret  landed  near  the  hide. It  starting   to  look  for  small  fish etc  while  wading  along the  shore  and  shuffling it`s  feet.  Suddenly it  dashed into   the  reeds. There  was  a  distressing   call  of a  bird , and out it  came   holding   the  reedwarbler in it`s  beak!  This  then attracted  one  of the other  egrets  ,  a mature  bird ,  perhaps  it`s  mom  or  dad. However the   juvenile bird  had  no intention  of sharing  it`s  prey ( according  to  Freud it  is essential  that  we split   from our  parrents  to  reach full maturity!)  and  flew  off, to eat  the  warbler  on the  other   shore. What  happended  to the  family  of  reedwarblers, I  do not know.