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On May 16th (after visiting both Marievale and Suikerbosrand on the 15th) I spent the morning driving up and back down the Zaagkiuldrift gravel road to Kgomo-kgomo - a lightly-used, exotically-named dirt road that cuts between privately-owned farms and game reserves in excellent thornveld to the north of Pretoria. The road more or less follows [...]

Thornveld birding: The Zaagkiuldrift gravel road to Kgomo-Kgomo (north of Pretoria)
04 October 2006
 

A section of the Zaagkiuldrift gravel road to Kgomo-Kgomo

 
Another superb day in South Africa, this time spent birding along a 20km gravel road going through dense thornveld about 120km north of Johannesburg. As different from the open grasslands south of Jo’burg as the [...]