The Cape Bird Club
Edith Stephens Wetland Park
This is a working partnership with a number of NGO's and the City of Cape Town.
Beginings of the Cape Flats Bird Club at Edith Stephens Wetland Park on 10 May 2008.
photograph by Doug
Harebottle
photograph by Doug Harebottle
Stacy-Ann Michaels Dave Whitelaw
Birding at Edith Stephens
There are varied habitats for birds, including a detention pond and seasonal wetland. Ibises, Egrets and Cormorants come to roost in numbers on islands in the retention dam, and waterbird species including White-backed Duck occupy the open water. The seasonal wetland appears lifeless in summer, but with the winter rains it becomes home to birds including African and Painted Snipe.
Read how Doug Harebottle and Marius Wheeler found the nest, the article is in the November 2004 Promerops.
photograph by Doug Harebottle
The first African Snipe nest found at Edith Stephens.
Background to the Edith Stephens Wetland Park
How to get involved;
- If you would like to help with CBC education activities at ESWP contact Cape Flats Nature as below.
- For more information about the monthly
bird count, and
how you can get involved, visit http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/stats/adu/eswp.htm - Also visit the Cape Flats Nature website www.capeflatsnature.org
How to get there.
