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December 2025

Fine feathers for the festive season in an Overberg garden

Visiting birds such as malachite sunbirds bring their own festive features to the garden in the year-end summer holidays. There will be no snow lying round about, no blazing Yule before us, or halls decked with boughs of holly. But oblivious of all that, the birds are donned in gay apparel. Fa la la la la and all that 🎶

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Springtime in the Overberg, Part 2: Feathers, farmlands and flowers

A September outing took us up a farm road, offering a spot of birdwatching, and then past the Sugarbird Nature Reserve that was rich with flowers as the vegetation regenerated after a previous fire.

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