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KWA-ZULU NATAL 17th February to 1st March 2008,
Rob Grimmond.
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Pondoland to Pongola Trip This list summarizes a visit to parts of Kwa-Zulu Natal ('KZN'), arranged by 'Meet Us in Africa', a business run by Carolyn and Derek McDonald. We had met Carolyn at the British Birdwatching Fair in 2005 and were impressed by her enthusiasm and her passion for her country and its flora and fauna.
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Note: Species in italics were heard only
Ostrich Struthio camelus
1 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve & 4 Night drive,Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; 6 Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
2 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 1 between Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak & Durban 1/3Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
6+ Botanic Gardens, Durban 1/3White-breasted Cormorant Phalacrocorax (carbo) lucidus
2 immature birds at Southbroom, near Munster 17/2Reed Cormorant Phalacrocorax africanus
1 Munster nursery 19/2; 6+ Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; 1 between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2African Darter Anhinga (melanogaster) rufa
3 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
1 O/F Crocworld, Scottburgh 17/2; 2 between Munster & Howick 20/2; 1 Botanic Gardens, Durban 1/3Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
1 between Durban & Munster 17/2; few Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 4 between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2; 1 Didima Camp area, Cathedral Peak 29/2Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
1 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Yellow-billed (Intermediate) Egret, Egretta intermedia
1 west of Winterton 28/2Little Egret Egretta garzetta
1 Southbroom 17/2; 4 between Munster & Howick 20/2Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
3+ between Durban & Munster 17/2; several Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 30+ Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; several between Howick & Louwsberg 23/2; common between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
2 Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2; 2 Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 1/3Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia episcopus
2 Southbroom & 1 O/F Crocworld, Scottburgh 17/2; 2 O/F Howick 22/2White Stork Ciconia ciconia
3 between Munster & Howick 20/2; 10 circling Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
4 between Durban & Munster 17/2; 3 between Munster & Howick 20/2; several Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 4 between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2; 50+ at a poultry farm between Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak & Durban & several Botanic Gardens, Durban 1/3Hadeda Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
1 O.R. Tambo IAP, Johannesburg 17/2; 2 Crocodile Farm, Scottburgh 17/2; few Port Edward & 4 Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 18/2; 2 between Munster & Howick & few Harrowhill Farm, Howick 20/2; several Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 1 Harrowhill Farm, Howick 22/2; Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 3 24/2 & 1+ 28/2; 5 Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2; 6 Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak & several Botanic Gardens, Durban 1/3African Spoonbill Platalea alba
10 Botanic Gardens, Durban 1/3White-faced Duck Dendrocygna viduata
2 on small pool at a nursery, Munster 18/2 & 8 there 19/2; 6 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
4 Port Edward 18/2; 2 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; 3 between Howick & Louwsberg 23/2; 2 between Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak & Durban 1/3South African Shelduck Tadorna cana
2 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
2 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 3 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; 4 Botanic Gardens, Durban 1/3African Black Duck, Anas sparsa
2 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Yellow-billed Duck, Anas undulata
12+ Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 2 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
1 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Hottentot Teal Anas hottentota
10+ Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma
2 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 1 west of Winterton 28/2Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus
1 between Munster & Howick 20/2; 1 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; 1 Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; 1 between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2Yellow-billed Kite Milvus (migrans) parasiticus
10+ between Durban & Munster 17/2; 3 Oribi Gorge 19/2; common between Munster & Howick & 1 Raptor Centre, Midlands 20/2; few Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg & common Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; 2 between Howick & Louwsberg 23/2; 1 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; 2 south of Pietermaritzburg & 1 south of Durban 1/3African Fish-Eagle Haliaeetus vocifer
1 Crocworld, Scottburgh 17/2; 2 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2Cape Vulture Gyps coprotheres
7 Oribi Gorge 19/2African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
1 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2African Goshawk Accipiter tachiro
1 Port Edward 18/2Steppe Buzzard Buteo buteo vulpinus
1 Raptor Centre, Midlands 20/2; 1 Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; 1 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; 7 between Howick & Louwsberg 23/2; 1 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve & 1 night drive Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; 1 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; 1 Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; 2 Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2; 2 between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2; 1 Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 29/2; 4 between Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak & Durban 1/3Forest Buzzard Buteo trizonatus
2 Oribi Gorge 19/2Jackal Buzzard Buteo rufofuscus
1 Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 18/2; 1 Oribi Gorge 19/2; 1 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg & 2 Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; 1 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; 1 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; 2 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
1 Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2Wahlberg's Eagle Aquila wahlbergi
1 Raptor Centre, Midlands 20/2; 2 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 23/2; 1 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; 1 Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2Verreaux's Eagle Aquila verreauxii
1 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; & 2 there 25/2; 2 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; 1 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
2 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2Booted Eagle Aquila pennata
1 dark phase Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
1 between Munster & Howick 20/2; 1 between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2; 1 south of Howick 1/3African Crowned Eagle, Stephanoaetus coronatus
1 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2Secretary-bird Sagittarius serpentarius
1 Ithala Game Reserve 28/2Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni
3 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2Rock Kestrel Falco (tinnunculus) rupicolis
1 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; 1 Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; 1 Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
53 between Howick & Louwsberg 23/2; 105 between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2; several between Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak & Durban 1/3Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
1 Raptor Centre, Midlands 20/2Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
1 near Howick 20/2; 6 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2 & 8 there 27/2Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
2 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2Blue Crane Anthropoides paradiseus
4 Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2Buff-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura elegans
1+ calling Booysen property, Dargle 22/2Black Crake Amaurornis flavirostra
2 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 1 calling Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio
4+ Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
4 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 1 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
6 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; several between Howick & Louwsberg 23/2; common between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2; several between Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak & Durban 1/3African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
1 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 1 between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2Black-winged Stilt, Himantopus himantopus
10+ Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
5+ at Crocworld, Scottburgh 17/2Blacksmith Plover Vanellus armatus
4 O/F Crocworld, Scottburgh 17-2; 2 Port Edward 18/2; 50+ Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 3 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2Three-banded Plover Charadrius tricollaris
8+ Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
1 Crocworld, Scottburgh17-2; 1 Port Edward 18/2; 1 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
10 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Ruff Philomachus pugnax
20+ Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Great Crested (Swift) Tern Thalasseus bergii
2 off Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 18/2Lesser Crested Tern Sterna bengalensis
2 Southbroom 17/2Rock Dove (feral) Columba livia
several around Durban 20/2Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 1 24/2 & 4 25/2; at Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak, 4 28/2, 19+ 29/2- & 17 1/3African Olive-Pigeon Columba arquatrix
3+ Booysen property, Dargle 22/2; 2+ new camp site below Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 29/2Lemon Dove Columba larvata
heard calling at Oribi Gorge 19/2Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
1 Munster17-2; 3 Port Edward & few Umtamvuna Nature Reserve & Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 18/2; 2+ Baboon Walk, Oribi Gorge19-2; few Ocean Grove Guest House & Harrowhill Farm, Howick 20/2; few Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg & few Harrowhill Farm, Howick 21/2; 2+ Harrowhill Farm, Howick 22/2; 1 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; few between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2; few Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2; few Botanic Gardens, Durban 1/3Cape Turtle-Dove Streptopelia capicola
few Harrowhill Farm, Howick 21/2 & 2+ 22/2; Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak few /2 & 6+ 1/3Laughing Dove Streptopelia senegalensis
3 O.R. Tambo IAP, Johannesburg & few between Durban & Munster 17/2; few between Munster & Howick 20/2; 1 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistris
heard calling at Oribi Gorge 19/2African Green-Pigeon Treron calvus
1 Umtamvuna Nature Reserve & 4 Umtamvuna Viewing Deck 18/2Knysna Turaco Tauraco corythaix
1+ Oribi Gorge road 19/2; 2 Booysen property, Dargle 22/2Purple-crested Turaco Tauraco porphyreolophus
2 Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 19/2; 2 calling Ocean Grove Guest House 20/2; Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 1 24/2, 2+ calling 25/2, 1 27/2 & 1 calling 28/2; 2 calling Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
1 female Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2Diderick Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
1 Harrowhill Farm, Howick 20/2; 2 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg, 1 Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve & 1 Harrowhill Farm, Howick 21/2; 1 Harrowhill Farm, Howick 22/2Burchell's Coucal Centropus (superciliosus) burchelli
1 between Munster & Umtamvuna 18/2; 2 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 1 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2Spotted Eagle-Owl, Bubo africanus
3 Night drive Ithala Game Reserve 24/2African Wood-Owl Strix woodfordii
2 calling after dark Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2African Palm-Swift Cypsiurus parvus
2 Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
2 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 28/2Common Swift Apus apus
6+ Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; few Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2African Black Swift Apus barbatus
few Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; few Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; few Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2Little Swift Apus affinis
1 Ocean Grove Guest House Munster South 18/2; 3 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Horus Swift Apus horus
1+ Umtamvuna Viewing Deck 18/2; 1 Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2White-rumped Swift, Apus caffer
several Umtamvuna Nature Reserve & 2 Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 18/2; few Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 19/2; few Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; few between Howick & Louwsberg 23/2; common Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2; common Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 1/3Speckled Mousebird, Colius striatus
1 Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 18/2; 2 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg, 1 Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve & 1 Harrowhill Farm, Howick 21/2; 1 Harrowhill Farm, Howick 22/2; 8 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve & 4 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; 1 Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2; 4 Botanic Gardens, Durban 1/3Malachite Kingfisher Alcedo cristata
1 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2Brown-hooded Kingfisher Halcyon albiventris
1 Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 18/2; 1 Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 19/2 & 2 there 20/2; 2 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maximus
1 along Pongola River, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
2 Port Edward 18/2European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
3 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2European Roller Coracias garrulus
1 between entrance gate and Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 23/2; 1 Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2African Hoopoe Upupa africana
2 Miner's Restaurant area, Talana, Dundee 23/2Crowned Hornbill Tockus alboterminatus
2 (adult and juvenile) Southbroom 17/2; 1 Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 18/2; 4 Oribi Gorge road 19/2; 2 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2Trumpeter Hornbill, Ceratogymna bucinator
1 Munster, 15 O/F Port Edward, 2 Umtamvuna Viewing Deck & 2 Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 18/2Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird, Pogoniulus bilineatus
2+ Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 18/2Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus pusillus
1 Oribi Gorge road 19/2; Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 3 25/2, 1 26/2, 1 27/2 & 1 28/2Acacia Pied Barbet Tricholaema leucomelas
1 calling Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2Black-collared Barbet Lybius torquatus
1 calling Port Edward 18/2; Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 5+ 18/2, 2 19/2 & 5 20/2; Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 2+ 24/2, 5 25/2, 7 26/2, 8+ 27/2 & 3 28/2; few Botanic Gardens, Durban 1/3Scaly-throated Honeyguide Indicator variegatus
1 Oribi Gorge road 19/2Red-throated Wryneck Jynx ruficollis
1 Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 18/2; 1 Miner's Restaurant area, Talana, Dundee 23/2; 1 Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 1/3Golden-tailed Woodpecker, Campethera abingoni
1 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve singles 25/2, 26/2 & 27/2; 1 Botanic Gardens, Durban 1/3Knysna Woodpecker Campethera notata
2 (a pair) Oribi Gorge road 19/2Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
2 (a pair) Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2 & 1 female 27/2Olive Woodpecker Dendropicos griseocephalus
2 Oribi Gorge road 19/2; 1 calling Booysen property, Dargle 22/2; 1 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2Rufous-naped Lark Mirafra africana
1 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; 1 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2Sabota Lark Calendulauda sabota
3 Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
13 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
several Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 18/2; 1 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 1 24/2, 2 26/2 & few 27/2; common Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; several Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; several Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; several Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2; few between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2; common Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2 & 1/3Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga
1 sick-looking bird by the roadside on the way back from Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; several Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
several O.R. Tambo IAP, Johannesburg 17/2; few Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 6+ Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; 2 west of Winterton 28/2Sand Martin Riparia riparia
1 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2Banded Martin Riparia cincta
2+ Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 18/2Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
few Umtamvuna Nature Reserve18-2; common Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg & Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; common Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; common between Howick & Louwsberg 23/2; common Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; common Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; common Ntshondwe Camp & Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; several Ntshondwe Camp & common Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2; common between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2; few Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2White-throated Swallow Hirundo albigularis
2+ Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 18/2; 1 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; few Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 29/2 & 1/3Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne fuligula
few Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 18-2; few Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; several Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2Common House Martin Delichon urbicum
2+ Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; 2 between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2; common Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 29/2Greater Striped-Swallow Cecropis cucullata
common Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 28/2, 29/2 & 1/3Lesser Striped-Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
several Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 18/2; common Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg & several Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; several Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; few Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2 & 26/2; several Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; several Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; few Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2South African Cliff-Swallow Petrochelidon spilodera
2 Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; several between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak & few Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 28/2; several Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
1 Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
1 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2Buffy Pipit Anthus vaalensis
1 Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2Striped Pipit Anthus lineiventris
1 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve & 1 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2Cape Longclaw, Macronyx capensis
3 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2Yellow-throated Longclaw, Macronyx croceus
3 Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
1 Crocworld, Scottburgh 17/2; 4 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 1 Booysen property, Dargle & Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 2 28/2, 13+ 29/2 & 6+ 1/3Mountain Wagtail Motacilla clara
2 on river, Oribi Gorge 19/2Dark-capped Bulbul Pycnonotus tricolor
1 Port Edward 18/2; Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 2 18/2 & 19/2 & 1 20/2; 4 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg & 3+ Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; few Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; 1 adult and one fledgling on the ground at Miner's Restaurant area, Talana, Dundee 23/2; abundant Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2 to 28/2; common Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; common Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; common Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; several Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2; several Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2 & 1/3; common Botanic Gardens, Durban 1/3Sombre Greenbul Andropadus importunus
1+ Umtamvuna Nature Reserve18-2; common Oribi Gorge road 19/2; few Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; common Booysen property, Dargle 22/2; Camp, Ithala Game Reserve few 24/2, 3 25/2, 6 26/2, 2+ 27/2 & 2 28/2; few Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; 1 Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2Terrestrial Brownbul Phyllastrephus terrestris
few calling Booysen property, Dargle 22/2Eastern Nicator Nicator gularis
1 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2Cape Rock-Thrush Monticola rupestris
1 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2 & 26/2; 2 Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 29/2 & 1 there 1/3Groundscraper Thrush Psophocichla litsipsirupa
2 Miner's Restaurant area, Talana, Dundee 23/2; 1 Didima Camp area, Cathedral Peak 29/2Olive Thrush Turdus olivaceus
1 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2Lazy Cisticola Cisticola aberrans
3 Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; 2 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 1 25/2, 1 26/2 & 3 27/2; 1 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; common Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; few Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2; 2 Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2Wailing Cisticola Cisticola lais
5+ Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; few Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2 & 1 there 1/3Levaillant's Cisticola, Cisticola tinniens
common Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; common Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; few Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2; common Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2Croaking Cisticola, Cisticola natalensis
1 Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 18/2; 1 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; few Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; few Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2; few Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2 & 1 there 1/3Neddicky Cisticola fulvicapilla
2 Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2 & 1 calling there 1/3Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
few Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; few Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 1+ 28/2, few 29/2 & 1 1/3Cloud Cisticola Cisticola textrix
several Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; 1 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2Wing-snapping Cisticola Cisticola ayresii
1 Baboon Walk, Oribi Gorge 19/2; few heard Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
3 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 6 Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2Bar-throated Apalis Apalis thoracica
Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 1 24/2, 4 25/2 & 1 26/2Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 5 incl 3 juveniles 25/2, 1 26/2, 3 27/2 & 3 28/2Green-backed Camaroptera, Camaroptera brachyura
1 heard Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 2 24/2, 2 25/2, 1 26/2, 1 27/2 & 4 28/2Little Rush-Warbler Bradypterus baboecla
2+ Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Cape Grassbird Sphenoeacus afer
1 heard Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; few heard Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 29/2 & 1 seen & 3 heard there 1/3Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
1 heard Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2African Reed-Warbler Acrocephalus baeticatus
several Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 3+ Midmar Game Reserve 22/2Great Reed-Warbler, Acrocephalus arundinaceus
1 singing Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Lesser Swamp-Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris
2 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Yellow-throated Woodland-Warbler Phylloscopus ruficapilla
1 Oribi Gorge road 19/2; 6+ Booysen property, Dargle 22/2Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
2 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 2+ 24/2; 2 25/2, 2 26/2,1 27/2 & 2 28/2; 1 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2Southern Black-Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina
1 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; 2 Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
1 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2 & 25/2; 1 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 1 25/2 & 2 26/2 & 28/2Ashy Flycatcher Muscicapa caerulescens
1 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2 & 28/2; 1 Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 1/3Cape Robin-Chat Cossypha caffra
2 Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 18/2; Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 1 29/2 & 4 1/3White-throated Robin-Chat Cossypha humeralis
1 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
2 Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 18/2; common Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; 1 Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; 2 Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2Buff-streaked Chat Saxicola bifasciatus
2 Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2Familiar Chat Cercomela familiaris
1 Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 18/2; 2 Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; 1 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve & 1 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; 1 Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; 1 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 28/2; 1 Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2Mocking Cliff-Chat Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris
1 Miner's Restaurant area, Talana, Dundee 23/2; Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 1 23/2, 2 24/2,3 25/2, 4 26/2 & 3+ 27/2Cape Batis Batis capensis
1 Booysen property, Dargle 22/2; Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 1 24/2 & 27/2 & 2 28/2Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
2 Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; 1 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; 1 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve & 1 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; 2 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2 & 5 there 27/2African Paradise-Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
2 Oribi Gorge road 19/2; 1 Harrowhill Farm, Howick 20/2; 1 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 4 25/2, 2 26/2, 1 27/2 & 2 28/2Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
few calling Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2; 2 Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2 & 1 there 1/3Bush Blackcap Lioptilus nigricapillus
1 Didima Camp area, Cathedral Peak 29/2Southern Black-Tit Melaniparus niger
Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 2 25/2 & 6 26/2 & 27/2Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
2 Booysen property, Dargle 22/2Eastern Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
1 Oribi Gorge road 19/2Grey Sunbird Cyanomitra veroxii
1 Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 18/2Amethyst Sunbird, Chalcomitra amethystina
several Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 18/2; Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 3+ 18/2 & few 19/2 & 20/2; 1 Harrowhill Farm, Howick 20/2; 2 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg & 2 Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; 1 Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 29/2 & 1/3Malachite Sunbird Nectarinia famosa
2 Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 29/2Greater Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris afer
1 Reception area, Oribi Gorge 19/2; 2 Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2 & 1/3White-breasted Sunbird Cinnyris talatala
1 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; 1 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2 & 28/2Cape White-eye Zosterops pallidus
2 Ocean Grove Guest House Munster South 19/2 & 20/2; 10 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 2 Booysen property, Dargle 22/2; Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 4 24/2, 5 25/2, 4 26/2, 9 27/2 & 12 28/2; several Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; 6+ Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2 & 15 there 1/3Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
2+ Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
1 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 1 Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; 1 Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 29/2Common Fiscal Lanius collaris
1 Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 18/2; 2 Ocean Grove Guest House & common between Munster & Howick 20/2; 4 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg & 5 Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; common Midmar Game Reserve & 1 Harrowhill Farm, Howick 22/2; common between Howick & Louwsberg & 1 Miner's Restaurant area, Talana, Dundee 23/2; common Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2 ; few Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; 1 Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; 1 Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2; 3 Ithala Game Reserve 28/2; 3 Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2; common between Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak & Durban 1/3Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla
2 calling Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 2 25/2 & 26/2 & 1 27/2; 2 Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2 26/2 & 4 27/2; 1 Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
1 seen briefly Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2 & heard calling there 27/2 & 28/2Square-tailed Drongo Dicrurus ludwigii
Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 3+ 18/2, few 19/2 & 3 20/2; few Botanic Gardens, Durban 1/3Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
common Oribi Gorge road 19/2; 2 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2 ; few Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; few Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; 1 Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; 2 Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2Cape Crow Corvus capensis
1 Oribi Gorge road 19/2; 3 between Munster & Howick 20/2; 2 Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2 ; 3 between Howick & Louwsberg 23/2Pied Crow Corvus albus
5 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 5 between Howick & Louwsberg 23/2; 1 Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2; 8 between Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak & Durban 1/3White-necked Raven, Corvus albicollis
2+ Umtamvuna Nature Reserve & 2 Umtamvuna Viewing Deck 18/2; 1 Oribi Gorge road 19/2; 1 Raptor Centre, Midlands 20/2; 3 Didima Camp area, Cathedral Peak 1/3Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
few Durban International Airport 17/2; 4 between Howick & Louwsberg 23/2 ; 1+ between Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak & Durban 1/3Cape Glossy-Starling Lamprotornis nitens
4 Oribi Gorge road 19/2; 1 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve & few Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; 1 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; 2 Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; 2 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2Black-bellied Starling Lamprotornis corruscus
2 Southbroom 17/2 ; few Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 19/2Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio
2 between Durban & Munster 17/2; 8 Oribi Gorge road & few Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 19/2; Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 5 24/2, 1 25/2, 3 26/2, 2 27/2 & 3 28/2; Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 6+ 29/2 & 4 1/3Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythrorhynchus
2 Dakaneni Loop & several Night drive, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; 2 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2House Sparrow Passer domesticus
several Shongweni 20/2; few between Howick & Louwsberg & few Miner's Restaurant area, Talana, Dundee 23/2; few between Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak & Durban 1/3Cape Sparrow Passer melanurus
1 Miner's Restaurant area, Talana, Dundee 23/2; Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 2 25/2 & 1 26/2Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer diffusus
1 Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 19/2; 1 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 3+ 29/2 & 3 1/3Yellow-throated Petronia Petronia superciliaris
1 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
1 Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2Spectacled Weaver, Ploceus ocularis
few Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 19/2Cape Weaver Ploceus capensis
few Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 19/2; common Botanic Gardens, Durban 1/3Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
several Shongweni 20/2; Harrowhill Farm, Howick common 20/2, 21/2 & 22/2; 1 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; few Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; common Miner's Restaurant area, Talana, Dundee 23/2; 2 Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2Dark-backed Weaver Ploceus bicolor
several Oribi Gorge road 19/2; 3 Ocean Grove Guest House 20/2Red-billed Quelea, Quelea quelea
several Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; 10+ Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
1 O.R. Tambo IAP, Johannesburg 17/2; common Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; common Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; few between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2; several Botanic Gardens, Durban 1/3Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer
few between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2 ; few between Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak & Durban 1/3Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
1 Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 29/2 & 1/3Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
1 Baboon Walk, Oribi Gorge 19/2; few Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg & several Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; 1 Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
1 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg & common Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; common Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; few Ngulubeni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2Long-tailed Widowbird Euplectes progne
1 O.R. Tambo IAP, Johannesburg, South Africa 17/2; several Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; few between Howick & Louwsberg 23/2; several between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2 ; several Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2 & 1/3Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
1 Oribi Gorge road 19/2 ; several Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg & few Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; 1 Harrowhill Farm, Howick 22/2; 2 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; 1 Botanic Gardens, Durban 1/3Swee Waxbill Coccopygia melanotis
2 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
2 Oribi Gorge road 19/2; 2 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 2 Midmar Game Reserve 22/2; 2 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; 2 Onverwacht Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 27/2African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
2+ Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; 3 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2; Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 4 29/2 & 2 1/3Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullatus
2 Ocean Grove Guest House Munster 19/2; 2 Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
1 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2; 2 Booysen property, Dargle 22/2; 1 Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; 1 between Ithala Game Reserve & Cathedral Peak 28/2; 3+ Didima Camp & area, Cathedral Peak 29/2 & 1 there 1/3Cuckoo Finch Anomalospiza imberbis
7+ Midmar Game Reserve 22/2Yellow-fronted Canary Serinus mozambicus
2 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg & 2 Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve 21/2; 1 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2; several Ngubhu Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 25/2; 12 Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve 26/2Brimstone Canary Serinus sulphuratus
2 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Streaky-headed Seedeater, Serinus gularis
4 Darvill WWTP, Pietermaritzburg 21/2Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi
1 Dakaneni Loop, Ithala Game Reserve 24/2Golden-breasted Bunting, Emberiza flaviventris
2 in the new camp site below Didima Camp, Cathedral Peak 29/2
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