Birding with Paul Kruger’s Ghost

Oom Paul Kruger must be looking down on his farm (or up, depending on where he headed in the hereafter) with satisfaction and bewilderment. Transformed into a place for animals, birds and people, it now has a well-run lodge with a game reserve, a boardwalk through the forest, water courses, swimming pool, lawns and a score of statues.

Yep, statues. Plus at least a thousand bits of memorabilia from the South African War. Make that 10 000. Rifles, medals, uniforms, kit, citations, flags, insignia, swords, bayonets, artillery pieces, everything plus the kitchen sink. What would really bewilder the old man is the technology available to birders today, very different