Smithfield Birding Weblog

Birding in and around Smithfield, Free State

Archive for May, 2008

A different bird

Posted by smithfieldbirding on 21 May, 2008

Smithfield is hosting the annual BibberChill Festival on Friday 24 May 2008.

There are sure to be many birds around – definitely some of the feathered kind.

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Overshadowing Our Flamingo Story

Posted by smithfieldbirding on 3 May, 2008

by Carmel Rickard

WHEN people from Smithfield want to boast about the birds here we sometimes talk about the flamingos. On a good day there might be a few dozen “roomys voëls” trawling the edges where the little spruit feeds into the town dam, we say proudly.

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