‘Melville Koppies is a perfect place for beginner birders’
MELVILLE – A hike at the Melville Koppies will have you open your eyes to an assortment of birds.
Birds that migrate to the northern hemisphere for our winter are just beginning to return to Melville Koppies.
This serves as a another reminder that our winter is over for another year.
Volunteer at the koppies, Jenny Grice, shared that if a hiker be is lucky enough, they might spot the European bee-eaters with their distinctive staccato flight, catching the breeze with the swallows high up in the sky. “Or you could hear a diederik cuckoo making its persistent high-pitched die-die-diederik whistle or its less common, mournful-sounding cousin, Klaas’s cuckoo. Melville Koppies is a perfect place for beginner birders,” she said.
The koppies not only play host to migrant birds returning but also to community members who either love to hike or just bird gaze.
Details: Wendy Carstens wendavid@mweb.co.za
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