Lillac Breasted Roller taken by Mike Graham
Last nights meeting included a wonderful presentation by Mike Graham on his extensive trip to Botswana and he had us mesmerised with his fantastic photographs of all manner of birds and wildlife. It certainly made us eager to save every penny and plan a trip to the Okavango Delta, good camera in hand. We will have Mike visit us again later in the second half of the year to show us more of his birding adventures so please look out for him in the diary.
Mike and Margaret surveying the delta by mokoro
The Spot-the-bird competition was won by Jill Heistein and she went home with a lovely bottle of red from Haut Espoir.
Beautiful lioness taken by Mike Graham
Our brand new secretary, Cynthia, then prepared a wonderful meal for our speaker and they stayed overnight at the Franschhoek Traveller's Lodge before heading back to beautiful Hermanus this morning.
Our next meeting will take place on the 10th of March at 7.00pm and we will have Peter Nupen explaining the intricacies of bird ringing to us and we will hear all about the exciting re-catches which allows researchers to obtain amazing information of the life-cycle, travels and habits of our birds. The next morning he will have his mist nets up in the grounds of FTL and you are all invited to pop round between 5am - 9am and see him in action, catching and ringing our local garden birds. You may even be able to hold a bird in your hand and release it, a wonderful experience.
See you there and good birding.
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