Kirsty Barclay

Stop, Look… Twitch! Birding on Foot in Botswana’s Green Season

Stop, Look… Twitch! Birding on Foot in Botswana’s Green Season Fish eagle with kill in tree

We’re heading into Botswana’s most rewarding birding season, making it a hotspot for enthusiasts from around the globe. The rains have arrived in the Okavango Delta. November to March is considered Botswana’s ‘green season’; as there are fewer visitors at this time you are likely to have the place to yourself.  Most of the game […]

Paddles & Paws

Paddles & Paws

In the far north of Botswana an ancient channel, created by the Linyanti fault line, lay dry for thirty years. Miraculously in 2009, the floodwaters of the Okavango Delta entered the channel – not just a trickle but a torrent. For the first time in all these barren years water from the Okavango could escape […]