Royal Chundu Homeschool Lesson #51 ? How to make your own suet / fat seed balls for wild birds! Join us in attracting new feathered friends to your garden! We have had great fun creating this lesson and learnt all kinds of new things, which wouldn’t have happened if we’d…
“No other eagle can match the magnificence and fluent flight of these hunters of the hills.” ~ Peter Steyn, renowned South African ornithologist. The African Fish Eagle is a well-known sight and song on our river and across Zambia, so much so that it’s on the national flag and is…
Resting, Digesting & Weaver Nesting From around November to April, the European and North African migratory birds are back on the Zambezi and the river’s resident birds get all dressed up in their breeding plumage. During this time, it is nesting season and the weaver-birds get right to plying their…
The only thing I knew how to do Was to keep on keepin’ on Like a bird that flew Tangled up in blue. ~ Bob Dylan The scientific classification of the African fish eagle, Haliaeetus vocifer, gives a clue to its nature. Derived from the ancient Greek words hali, “at sea” and…
The Zambezi River is the home of many strange and awe-inspiring creatures. Some consider the flowing waters as their permanent residence and others only come to play. For some, it is an annual pilgrimage, for others a once in a lifetime experience. The flowing water, the sun-baked banks and the…
“Have you seen the nest? The thick-billed weaver nest in the trees by the pool! Did you know there are eight different kinds of weavers on the Zambezi? There’s the golden weaver and the spotted-back weaver and the…,” the little boy rattled off a list of weavers that I had…