Zandvlei Trust

ZIMP - Bird Sightings

Submit your bird photos at Zandvlei and have them published here.  The webmaster.

A sugestion

• Right click on the original photo file where you have stored it on your PC or laptop or watever other device.
• Then select send to,
• then an email recipient,
• then make the image smaller,
• With the above email address in the block send it off with your story, observation and any details.
• It is this easy. I do the rest.

An analysis of the Bird Counts at Sandvlei over the period Dec 1974 to Dec 1975 by G.W. Begg.

Click on the thumb nails page 1 to 23 (top left to right)

Do you know.

You can contribute to;

• the BIRP (Birds in Reserves Project) run by the ADU (Animal Demographic Unit) based at the University of Cape Town.
• By doing so you as a "citizen scientist" are helping to establish local and national species information and contribute to bird conservation.
• The process is fairly simple; volunteers go out to any PA (protected area - Greater Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve) and simply make a list of all the bird species observed. Data can be collected up to a maximum of seven days. 

Please start at Zandvlei and record all the birds you see and submit them via the data gathering process. For more information go the the BIRP website, as above. Please download the BIRP instruction booklet which contains all the relevant information pertaining to this project.

The project is supported and endorsed by both the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) as well as BirdLife South Africa (BLSA).

Doug Harebottle is the Project Manager.   tel (w) 021 650 2330.

Also, do you know about the South African Bird Atlas Project 2  - (SABAP2).

• This is a citizen scientist project and you can contribute your birdlist for your area.
• Read more about it and become involved.

2012.      updated 26/04/2012.

25/04/2012 - Barry Parker and Graham Pringle reported seeing the visiting Jacana near the western shore of Zandvlei and near the Scout Base today.

See the photo below.

24/04/2012 - Have a look at this Eagle Owl flying towards the camera and watch the feathers near the end of the recording.

21/04/2012 - Tinus Lamprecht photographed this Jacana at Zandvlei Nature Reserve. It was seen by Barry and Val Cleveland as well. Last know sighting was between 15 and 20 years ago by residents around Zandvlei.

photograph by Tinus Lamprecht.

Jacana with some Red knobbed Coots.

02/04/2012 - John and Sandra Fowkes had a visitor in their garden on 31/03/2012.

photograph by Sandra Fowkes

Red breasted Sparrowhawk and its lunch.

photograph by Sandra Fowkes

Red breasted Sparrowhawk.

photograph by Sandra Fowkes

A decan of Pied Kingfishers sitting on their mokoro (a wooden boat carved from a tree trunk) waiting for breakfast to come swimming past.

01/03/2012 - See this link to the Scenic South website                   updated 01/03/2012.
an article on Eric Barnes, and his list of birds for the Fish Hoek and Clovelly valley.

Eric Barnes has recorded birds in the Fish Hoek valley for many years.

Black Sparrowhawk Sightings.

photograph by Ann Koeslag

Black Sparrowhawk.

Black Sparrowhawks of the Cape Peninsula
Click on the link for information by Ann Koeslag to clearly identify the birds. Report your sightings to this volunteer group who monitor, ring and document the breeding and distribution of these birds.

photograph by Ann Koeslag

Little Bittern.