Hacking Team at Zandvlei Nature Reserve – January 2023.

This is a voluntary working relationship with the City of Cape Town and the Cape Bird Club since 1974.

A SE wind was blowing very strongly which helped keep us reasonably cool. The sky was clear and the temperature was in the high 20’s.

We continued cutting copsed and regrowth Port Jackson trees. We are progressing steadily. There is still more for us to do here though.

No plants or shrubs were flowering where we worked today. December was a very dry month and there has been no significant rain this month and little forecast for the next 10 days. The small light brown grasshoppers were the predominant insects. There were few ants seen. Barry saw a Vlei Rat along one of the pathway on the low laying grass area near the river. There was one new isolated rain spider nest attached to a dead cut branch.

We saw 13 species of birds which was quite good for the time of day and the weather conditions.

We shall go and inspect the Night Heron roost area where we planted screening shrubs and trees in July 2021. It will be cooler for us working there as February is one on the hottest months.

 

See this link for the past reports of what we have done.

photographs by Gavin Lawson.

Gavin Lawson.

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