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Lemon-breasted Canary, a special bird to see!

This special little bird is a near endemic to Southern Africa and Phinda is one of the best locations to view this bird. One of Phinda’s seven special habitat types is Lala Palm Veld and it is in the leaves of these palms, that the birds breed. Ian Mey and I were out with guests looking for this bird and we found one nesting, typically in the frond of a...

Posted: Phinda by Daryl Dell, Date: 25 April 2008

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Territorial Clash of Leopards!

The Mid-day sun was baking and the call of a male Leopard close to Mvubu Pan could not be mistaken for anything else. As we neared the pan we realized that it had moved off into jungle like bush, so we decided to return a little later. The starry sky was cool and the voice of nightjars was warm, we were patiently waiting for the Leopard to give us a...

Posted: Phinda by Daryl Dell, Date: 18 April 2008

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Aardvark Dances with Death!

The long grass down at the river kept the female Leopard well hidden but an ear sticking out of the top was enough to keep us interested. While waiting for her to make her move the echoing grunts of Hippo’s in the Mzinene River and the croaking call of the Marsh Owl close by, was a sign that the darkness was going to be active. The Hippo’s had submarined...

Posted: Phinda by Daryl Dell, Date: 18 April 2008

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Leopard Kills Giraffe!

A Giraffe calf lay dead in the riverbed and the tell tale signs of the attack were clear in the dried mud, a female Leopard had chased it down a muddy bank and there she took its final breath. A closer look in shadow of the carcass revealed smaller paw prints of three young cubs, the four of them had been feeding on this carcass during the night and had...

Posted: Phinda by Daryl Dell, Date: 26 March 2008

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Collared Flycatcher, there are very few records of this bird in Southern Africa!

While doing some birding in the Sand Forest my guest Callum Zehner was after a Narina Trogon and while stopping to listen to a Woodward's Batis the movement of a flycatcher high up in the canopy of a Lebombo Wattle caught our attention, we had stumbled on a Collared Flycatcher! This bird allowed us great views of it darting typically out from it's perch...

Posted: Phinda by Daryl Dell, Date: 2 March 2008

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