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New walking trails for Bird Island Lodge

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   Well we have been talking bout this for some time, and recently I started doing an audit of our walking trails, and found them overgrown due to nonuse during the lockdown. The two new trails are walkable, but currently have no benches or tables at the rest stops on the way.  The two walking trails under repair, need rest stops, as well as some hides or screens at selected butterfly hotspots. The birds in the bush here are not that skittish, but as you get closer to the rural housing spots, some birds become extremely nervous and seem to be awear that they are on the menu. The other day I was in the bush alone, and had an incident where the vines I was pulling out the path broke an old rotten tree.  Problem was that there was a #BirdsNest situated at the exact spot where this rotten tree snapped. I was distracted by some strange pink moving things inside the tree that was about one and half meters off the trail.   It was three tiny birdies, with no feathers and super big bulging eyes