Activities
Bush walks:
Wake up to the smell of fresh air, with a touch of fire smoke tingling in your nostrils. Get up with the sun, and take a stroll through the bush, follow the river until you find the Sables grazing on the open savanna like veldt. Pass through the thick bush to find the warthogs waking up, the honey badger passing you, not knowing or caring what day it is. Hear the sound of the mighty kudu bull breaking the branches. Keep walking and thinking until finally you find yourself.
When you get back to the lodge you are just in time to feed the game the cattle and enjoy the great taste of fresh coffee before breakfast. It is going to be another great day in Africa.
Bush drives:
Sit back and enjoy the scenery with an ice cold drink in the African sun. See the farm, the cattle, the game, and the golden grass scenery framed by the dark blue Magaliesberg Mountain in the background. Enjoy your drink as you take a tour around this African farm. You have not lived, if you have not experienced an African sunset
Accomodation:
Originally built using only material from the farm, thatch roof cut from the bush, roof construction erected from Popular trees growing along the river, and walls built from baked clay dug out of the donga’s. These rondawels along with the shed was the only construction on the farm when it was bought by our Grandparents Friedel & Lydia Schlotfeldt. It housed the previous owners, our grandparents, our parents, us and now our guests. The rondawels were reconstructed to their original form, to house our guests. The thatch roof makes it cool in the summer, and warm in the winter. These natural building materials make the guests at one with their natural surroundings. The three bedrooms, old style living room and farm kitchen takes you back to living in Africa in the late 1800’s, a time of African legends.
Bird Watching:
Take the time to explore the farm in search of our variety of bird species. See if you can spot the birds on the list, or even expand the list. Pause in the bush and listen to the sound of nature.
| BIRD NAMES OF BIRDS SPOTTED AT FLINTBECK |
| Yellow-fronted Canary |
| Black-throated Canary |
| Red-eyed Dove |
| Namaqua Dove |
| Tawny Eagle |
| Cut-throat Finch |
| Red-headed Finch |
| Grey Tit-Flycatcher |
| Greater Honeyguide |
| African Sacred Ibis |
| Purple Indigobird |
| Village Indigobird |
| Rufous-naped Lark |
| Monotonous Lark |
| Meyer’s Parrot |
| Kalahari Scrub Robin |
| Olive Thrush |
| Cardinal Woodpecker |
| Bearded Woodpecker |
| Bennett’s Woodpecker |
| Green Wood-hoopoe |
| Pin-tailed Whydah |
| Capped Wheatear |
| White-browed Sparrow-Weaver |
| Village Weaver |
| Southern Masked Weaver |
| Blue Waxbill |
| Violet-eared Waxbill |
| Cape Wagtail |
| African Pied Wagtail |
| White-backed Vulture |
| Lappet-faced Vulture |
| Hooded Vulture |
| Cape Vulture |
| Chestnut-vented Tit-Babbler |
| Spotted Thick-knee |
| Brown-crowned Tchagra |
| Black-crowned Tchagra |
| Little Swift |
| African Palm Swift |
| Lesser Striped Swallow |
| Barn Swallow |
| Yellow-billed Stork |
| Violet-backed Starling |
| Red-winged Starling |
| Burchell’s Starling |
| Little Sparrowhawk |
| Southern Grey-headed Sparrow |
| Cape Sparrow |
| House Sparrow |
| Southern White-crowned Shrike |
| Lesser Grey Shrike |
| Magpie Shrike |
| Crimson-breasted Shrike |
| Common Scimitarbill |
| European Roller |
| Lilac-breasted Roller |
| Cape Robin-Chat |
| Red-billed Quelea |
| Tawny-flanked Prinia |
| Bushveld Pipit |
| Buffy Pipit |
| Speckled Pigeon |
| African Green Pigeon |
| Western Barn Owl |
| Common Ostrich |
| Black-headed Oriole |
| Fiery-necked Nightjar |
| Neddicky |
| Common Myna |
| Cape Longclaw |
| Crowned Lapwing |
| Blacksmith Lapwing |
| African Wattled Lapwing |
| Yellow-billed Kite |
| Black-shouldered Kite |
| Pied Kingfisher |
| Woodland Kingfisher |
| Brown-hooded Kingfisher |
| Hadeda Ibis |
| Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill |
| Southern Red-billed Hornbill |
| African Grey Hornbill |
| African Hoopoe |
| Black-headed Heron |
| Grey Heron |
| Hamerkop |
| Helmeted Guineafowl |
| Egyptian Goose |
| Grey Go-away-bird |
| Crested Francolin |
| Coqui Francolin |
| Southern Black Flycatcher |
| Fiscal Flycatcher |
| African Paradise Flycatcher |
| Common Fiscal |
| Red-billed Firefinch |
| Jameson’s Firefinch |
| Western Cattle Egret |
| Martial Eagle |
| Brown Snake Eagle |
| White-faced Whistling Duck |
| Fork-tailed Drongo |
| Laughing Dove |
| Emerald-spotted Wood Dove |
| Cape Turtle Dove |
| Levaillant’s Cuckoo |
| Red-chested Cuckoo |
| Diederik Cuckoo |
| Black Cuckoo |
| Cape Crow |
| Pied Crow |
| Long-billed Crombec |
| Burchell’s Coucal |
| Rattling Cisticola |
| Ant-eating Chat |
| Grey-backed Camaroptera |
| Lizard Buzzard |
| Common Buzzard |
| Grey-headed Bushshrike |
| Golden-breasted Bunting |
| African Red-eyed Bulbul |
| Southern Boubou |
| Southern Carmine Bee-eater |
| European Bee-eater |
| Crested Barbet |
| Black-collared Barbet |
| Southern Pied Babbler |
| Arrow-marked Babbler |
| Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl |
| Red-faced Mousebird |
| Red-billed Oxpecker |
| Pearl-spotted Owlet |
| African Olive Pigeon |
| Red-backed Shrike |
| Swainson’s Spurfowl |
| Natal Spurfowl |
| Southern Black Tit |
| Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird |
| Groundscraper Thrush |
| White-bellied Sunbird |
| Cape Glossy Starling |
| White faced duck |
| Secretary bird |
“Africa, even though you have never been there, you feel at home, it is calling you, the spirit of the great heart.”
