I will be ringing birds at the Paarl Bird Sanctuary this Saturday (24th Sep) from 7.00am. This sanctuary is part of the Paarl Sewerage Works and is a great birding venue. Please feel free to come through and join me, visit a little while and do some water-bird watching. The monthly water bird count will also be taking place that day (run by group in Paarl) so there will be plenty of bodies around. Remember this venue is not safe for birding on your own.
I will be ringing birds at the Wild Flower Garden behind the Franschhoek Huguenot Memorial Museum on Saturday the 1st of October from 7.00am. As always, you are very welcome to come down and see how we do it, and walk around the garden looking for our own lovely birds.
The next monthly meeting is the following Saturday, 8th of October and we will be having Dr Bool Smuts from the Landmark Foundation speaking to us. They work in many areas of conservation and sustainability but will be talking to us about the sourge of gin-traps used by sheep farmers to control predators, especially the effect on leopards. Dr Smuts is a well respected conservationist and it is an honour to have him talk to our club. I hope that as many of you as possible will attend, and feel free to bring guests along. Please remember the R5.00 per member and R20.00 per guest entrance fee/lucky draw ticket. All these little amounts help towards growing a meager kitty.
Lastly, Jill Heistein has had an op and we wish her a very speedy recovery and send lots of love. Please keep her in your throughts. I will be sending some flowers from the club for her.
See you all soon, happy birding!
