The main attraction of the Bearded vulture hide in Giant's Castle Reserve is the sightings of rare raptors such as the Bearded and Cape vultures. These vultures are not around the hide all the time. While waiting for the vultures to appear above the Bushman's river valley there was plenty of wildlife activity in front…

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11.11.2023

Bearded vulture hide – swallowing bones | Howie's Wildlife Images

On day four, we were just over half way into our six day visit to the Giant's Castle vulture hide. We had seen many fly-bys by the fledged juveniles and adult Bearded vultures. At times the fly-bys were far away in the middle of the Bushman's river valley. At other times they were way above…

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18.11.2023

Bearded vulture hide – unusual behaviour | Howie's Wildlife Images

This is the last post from our six day sojourn at the Giant's Castle vulture hide. Helen and I stayed for a longer than usual period hoping to see different behaviour that we had not seen during our previous one and two day visits. We awoke on our last morning to heavily overcast weather with…

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26.11.2023

Mashatu-avian diversity | Howie's Wildlife Images

By chance we were back in the "big smoke" for a week after our week at Giant's Castle when my brother Jerry told me that his guest who was going to take the week in Mashatu could not make it. Helen and I jumped at the opportunity to return to Mashatu in February this year…

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Bearded vulture hide – when not watching vultures | Howie's Wildlife Images

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Mashatu-avian diversity | Howie's Wildlife Images

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