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Nils Olav, a King Penguin in the Edinburgh Zoo, has been knighted by a British Major General on behalf of Norway’s King Harald V.  Sir Nils, actually the third of a series of penguins of the same name, had previously achieved the rank of colonel-in-chief in the King’s Guard, for whom he serves as a [...]

Rooiels and Betty’s Bay
30 May 2008
 
Getting up early after such a previously great day’s birding (Birding the Cape: the west coast) is not all that difficult - actually not difficult at all - and when my guide Brian arrived at 07:30 I was raring to go. Unfortunately so was the rain. In fact I’d been [...]

I’m just back from a superb two days birding in Cape Town, South Africa (just two days? For those who don’t know I work for an airline - I come, I go, what can I say…) with Brian Vanderwalt. It’s going to take me the best part of next week to work through all the [...]

African Penguins Spheniscus demersus
Boulders Beach, Simon’s Town, Cape Peninsula
05 September 2006
 
A straightforward 40 minute drive from either central Cape Town (follow signs to the M4) or Somerset West (the scenic coastal-route following the R310/Baden Powell highway joins the M4 by Muizenberg and is good for excellent views across False Bay and an option to stop [...]

Boulders Beach African Penguin Colony Simon’s Town, Cape Peninsula, South Africa
05 September 2006
 

 
There are so many excellent sites in the south-west Cape that choosing where to go when you’re a touch more tired than you want to admit is not as easy as you’d think. Within an easy hour’s drive from where we stay in [...]