Attendees: Stanley & Asothie Gengan, Eric Kok, Andy Ruffle (4 attendees).
Sadly we didn’t
have a very good turnout for this morning’s visit to Buhr’s Farm. However,
birding was pretty good, with some good views of some birds we don’t often see
well.
Red-necked
Spurfowl was the first of these, with one scurrying along the road as we
entered the upper part of the farm. Forest Canary, Levaillant's Cisticola, Streaky-headed
Seedeater, Black-crowned Tchagra and Lazy Cisticola all showed nicely for us.
Birds
recorded: At Paddock Station & Buhr’s Farm- Red-winged Starling, Yellow-fronted
Canary, Cape White-eye, Common
Myna, Village Weaver, Fan-tailed
Widowbird, Hamerkop, Black-headed Heron, Black-headed Oriole, Brimstone Canary,
Cattle Egret,Common Starling, Common Moorhen, Diderick
Cuckoo, Hadeda Ibis, African Stonechat, Red-eyed Dove, Natal Spurfowl, Red-necked
Spurfowl, Speckled Mousebird, Southern Boubou, African Firefinch, Blacksmith
Lapwing, Common Waxbill, Forest Canary, Burchell's Coucal, Green-backed
Camaroptera, Olive Sunbird, Red-collared Widowbird, Little Rush-Warbler, Spectacled
Weaver, Levaillant's Cisticola, Spur-winged Goose, Tawny-flanked Prinia, Little
Grebe, Chinspot Batis, Streaky-headed Seedeater, Lesser Striped Swallow, Southern
Black Flycatcher, Amethyst Sunbird, Greater Double-collared Sunbird, Black-crowned
Tchagra, Sombre Greenbul, Lazy Cisticola, Neddicky, White-browed Scrub-Robin, Barn
Swallow, Grey Crowned Crane, Jackal Buzzard, Cape Starling, Croaking Cisticola,
Yellow-billed Kite, Cape Grassbird, Yellow-billed Duck, Black Saw-wing, Zitting
Cisticola, Black-shouldered Kite. (57 species)
Oribi Gorge
area- Ashy Flycatcher, Black-backed Puffback, Square-tailed Drongo, Red-chested
Cuckoo, Red-capped Robin-chat, Cape Turtle-dove, Common Fiscal. (total 64 species).
