Back from supervising a field trip in Rustenberg

I spent the last four days as one of the responsible adults on a field trip for the incoming group of Honour's students. We took them to Kgaswane Nature Reserve just on the edge of Rustenberg. The purpose of the trip was partly for everyone to get to know each other and partly for the students to learn some new field techniques, which meant we got to catch quite a few cool animals. Most exciting for me was an African yellow bat, which I have never seen before, but we also caught small mammals, birds, snakes, lizards, bees, and frogs.

I'll be in Pretoria for the next 3 weeks before Andrew, Ben and I are taking off for a week in the Kalahari desert of Botswana.