This is a working partnership with the City of Cape Town and the Cape Bird Club.
- This is an Important Bird Area (IBA).
- The site has been counted continuously on a monthly by volunteer CBC members since 1983, when Alan Morris (then CBC Chairman) decided Strandfontein needed recorded data, after the successful nearby Zandvlei bird counts recorded for the Marina da Gama development.
- Strandfontein was declared a RAMSAR site on World Wetlands Day 02/02/2015.
- Please come along and help Graham Pringle and his group with the monthly counts and quarterly CWAC, on the 2nd Sunday of each month at 08h00.
- You dont have to be an expert to help at this premier Cape Town birding site.
Contact Graham Pringle 083 707 1339 or gdpringle@mweb.co.za
In the first photo by Dick Barnes at the 20th Anniversary are;
L to R Wally & Pam Cox, Rob Machin, Theo Nel, Mike McCarthy, Paul Meadows, Brenda Anderson, Yvonne Knowles, John Magner, Jean Eva, Derek & Romana Longrigg, Dick Barnes.
In the second photo by Graham Pringle at the 30th Anniversary are;
L to R Joan Ackroyd, John Magner, Derek Longrigg, Reith Goldschmidt, Alan Morris, Jean Eva, Dennis Laidler, Gill Ford, Graham Pringle. Dick Barnes could not be there unfortunately.
Alan Morris (centre with cap) started the counts in July 1983.
In the third photo by Graham Pringle at the 40th Anniversary are;
from the left – John Magner, Graham Pringle, Mel Tripp, Rosemary Nathan, Simon Fogarty and Wally Silbernagl.
Jacque Smit was also present but had to leave as soon as the count was over and Dick Barnes and Rod Douglas left early as Rod wasn’t well.
