Driehoek Voëlklub
Spotted Eagle-Owl · Cederberg · Black
The one everyone hears from the stoep after dark, and almost nobody manages to put a torch on.
Clubs that do not exist yet
Every one of these is a birding club we made up, named for a place you have probably birded, wearing the bird you would expect to find there.
We are not making all of them. Vote for the one you want on your head and we will print the clubs that win, in a limited run, once.
Voting opens shortly. These are the designs so far.
Liesbeek Bird Club
Cape White-eye · Liesbeek River, Cape Town · Sand
The bird you hear before you see, working the canopy along the river in a loose party that never quite holds still.
Slangkop Pelagic Club
Shy Albatross · Kommetjie, Cape Peninsula · Deep blue
For the people who get up at four, take the pills, and go out past the lighthouse to look at birds that never come to land.
Wildevoëlvlei Birding Society
Little Grebe · Noordhoek, Cape Peninsula · Forest green
A dabchick on the vlei, which is where most of us first learned that a small brown bird can disappear completely and come up somewhere else entirely.
What happens to the ones that win
We print them once, in a limited run, and tell everyone who voted first. If none of them gets enough votes to be worth making, we will tell you that too.
Voting puts your address on one list, used to tell you when the caps are made. Nothing else, and you can leave it at any time.