This is a voluntary working relationship with the City of Cape Town and the Cape Bird Club since 1978.
It was like a reunion, we have not seen each other for 3 months. The weather was a perfect spring day, blue sky, no wind, the air was cool though. The pavements from Southfield all the way to Muizenberg Circle and on the dunes down to the estuary mouth were covered in masses of white daisies and Yellow daisies, carpets of them. Never have I seen such a splendid show of flowers along this route. It is spectacular.
Robin worked down the bottom near the Main Road cutting re-sprouted Port Jackson shrubs. The rest of us worked down near the Milkwood trees. There are 2 splendid trees growing with a closed canopy. I did find a small seedling with bright green new growth. The trees have between 20 to 30cm of spring growth from all the rain in the past 2 months. There are many more copsed resprouts and seedlings which have sprung up too. Bert managed to cut down 2 biggish Port Jackson trees which were in bright yellow flower. There were plenty of spring flowers about and shrubs flowers as well. There are few insects seen. The caterpillar specie of the Brown Vapourer moth Bracharoa dregei in the photo were seen in a couple of locations and the flying moth as well.
The estuary mouth was open as full moon is this week, and the sand banks were very prominent as per the photo.
Not many bird species were seen 7 in total.
See this link for the past reports of what we have done.
photographs by Gavin Lawson and Robin Burnett.
Gavin Lawson.
