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Madikwe; Paradise Restored

10,000 Birds

And so South Africa’s fifth largest park came to be (it’s worth remembering that its largest park, Kruger, is the size of Israel) on marginal land that no one in particular could do much with. Madikwe may have been farmland once upon a time but these days it has been fully restored as an astonishing game reserve.

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Digiscoping With An iPhone 4S

10,000 Birds

However, the newer models of smart phones has changed the game of digiscoping. I recently went to Israel and though I packed my Nikon D40 SLR camera, I also took along my new iPhone 4s just to see if an opportunity would come up to try out the phone: And boy were the opportunities were endless.

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