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November 1, 2021
One of our favourite activities every year is the annual vulture tagging. We have been participating since 2016, at which point one child was two and the other five. The first time we joined this outing we hadn’t yet met everyone involved, but had made telephonic arrangements to meet the team at Sesriem.
November 1, 2021
Namibia is a large country, size does indeed matter, so driving and being on the road will be part and parcel of travelling (and bird watching) in this vast and beautiful country. To get to the different hotspots for birding you need to do the travel thing (remember slowness), be it by car, boat or on foot, although I must confess Namibians are not known for the foot thing.
October 29, 2021
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] They taught us the speed of light, but they never taught us the speed of darkness. – Sarajevo Marlboro by Miljenko Jergovic [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Fire […]
March 10, 2021
It might sound like a bit of a cliché to mention the importance of trees for birds and vice versa, although there are unfortunately people who still cannot see that importance, and probably not the importance of trees for humans either – so how in hell would they ever see the importance of trees at all.
April 2, 2020
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Text and Photographs Pompie Burger I don’t like snakes, and I am scared of snakes. The fact that I know Dr Christo Buys, the snake […]
January 8, 2020
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Text and Photographs Pompie Burger [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] As if game drives in a vehicle aren’t bad enough, someone has invented boat trips. The worst part of […]
December 11, 2019
Prides of lion, prancing springbuck, unabashedly-staring kudu and the grey ghosts that are the elephants.
November 28, 2019
A few international birding enthusiasts were rewarded with a unique and extremely rare sighting of Ross’s Turaco 35 kilometres west of Rundu.
September 5, 2019
To explain something that you yourself do not understand can be extremely heart-warming. It can become so warm that even cold hard facts cannot put the matter to rest. I have been trying to sort out larks, as in identify, classify and file in the correct folder, for many years.
August 27, 2019
If this story will not motivate you to start birding you can just as well die and never be able to enjoy life to its fullest. If you are an anti-social animal, birding is for you. If you are a party animal and crowd pleaser you will even like it that much more, entertaining your guest with another wonderful sighting of your first 50 birds (mossies?).
April 24, 2019
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The 7 “unofficial” categories of birders. Text and Photographs Pompie Burger [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] To become part of this very exclusive, highly rated, wild and wonderful group […]
March 6, 2019
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] They zip passed me in a flash of colour, taking off in a plume of pink and blue. The flap of wings and their chirping […]
March 5, 2019
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Text and Photographs Pompie Burger [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I have changed my opinion on tour guides and engaged people, and have myself become a very sympathetic tour guide and […]
September 20, 2018
Arriving in Namibia many moons ago as a free man, not on any anti-depressants but with lots of hair and muscles, weekends were open for enjoyment. As a novice birder (2 months), I decided that Etosha should be the first place to conquer with my new-found knowledge and enthusiasm for the world of birds. Since I had been in the country for just one month there were a few birds to discover, over 600 to be more precise. Without wanting to bore the reader with the "wel en weë van (ups and downs of) die blou bul birder" this might be of real importance to any novice Namibian and birder.
September 16, 2018
The Nyae Nyae Pans in the east of Namibia were filled up after good autumn rains. Stories abounded of lions that roamed the open grasslands. Of a massive flock of flamingos that had descended on the water. One word: paradise.