Outing report: Oribi Gorge Nature Reserve and Vulture Viewing Hide - 13 January 2019

Cape Vulture (photo Doug Butcher)

Attending: Barrie Willis & Sue Hansbury, Stan & Val Culley, Stanley & Asothie Gengan, Doug & Angie Butcher, Margaret Jones, Lia Steen, Clive & Margie Cowan, Robin Eccles, Alastair Warman, Leon & Annette Du Toit, Danie Du Toit, Tim & Helen McClurg, Andy Ruffle (20)

A hot and windy day did not deter a good turn-out for the popular Oribi Gorge and of course the ever-entertaining Cape Vultures.

Cape Vulture (photo: Doug Butcher)

View of Oribi Gorge (photo: Doug Butcher)

European Honey Buzzard (photo: Doug Butcher)

Species identified: 52

Barbet, Black-collared Batis, Cape Boubou, Southern Brownbul, Terrestrial Bulbul, Dark-capped Buzzard, European Honey Buzzard, Jackal Cameroptera, Green-backed Canary, Yellow-fronted Chat, Familiar Crow, Pied Cuckoo, Black Cuckoo, Diederick Cuckoo, Red-chested Dove, Cape Turtle Dove, Red-eyed Duck, White-faced Falcon, Lanner Fiscal, Common Flycatcher, Paradise Greenbul, Sombre Honeyguide, Lesser Hornbill, Trumpeter Kite, Yellow-billed Longclaw, Yellow-throated Mannikin, Bronze

Moorhen, Common Neddicky Oriole, Black-headed Prinia, Tawny-flanked Raven, White-necked Robin-Chat, Red-capped Saw-wing, Black Starling, Black-bellied Starling, Red-winged Starling, Violet-backed Stonechat, African Sunbird, Amethyst Sunbird, Olive Swallow, Barn Swallow, Lesser-striped Swift, Palm Thrush, Cape Rock Tinkerbird, Red-fronted Tinkerbird, Yellow-rumped Turaco, Knysna Turaco, Purple-crested Vulture, Cape Waxbill, Common Weaver, Thick-billed Weaver, Village Widowbird, Red-collared