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Quick dash to the Botanicals this morning and added a lifer in the form of Marsh Warbler. New total 475, year-end total still 530!

Okay - started the year at 262, but after a weekend trip to Pretoriuskop in January - we are now at a new total of 273. New birds added:

163 - Donkersingvalk (Dark Chanting Goshawk)
180 - Oostelike Rooipootvalk (Amur Falcon)
820 - Koekoekvink (Cuckoo Finch)
807 - Dikbekwewer (Thick-billed Weaver)
441 - Rooiborsbyvreter (Southern Carmine Bee-eater)
864 - Gewone Blouvinkie (Dusky Indigobird)
867 - Staalblouvink (Village Indigobird)
689 - Europese Vlieevanger (Spotted Flycatcher)
728 - Geelkeelkalkoentjie (Yellow-throated Longclaw)
886 - Klipstreepkoppie (Cinnamon-breasted Bunting)
842 - Rooibekvuurvinkie (Red-billed Firefinch)

My list is now on 503 after the Shingwedzi Birding weekend.
499 Dusky Lark (505)
500 Greater Blue-eared Glossy Starling (765)
501 Black Cuckooshrike (538)
502 Purple Widowfinch (865)
503 Mosque Swallow (525)

Moved up again thanks to Honorary Rangers Wader Bash in WCNP.

Osprey with fish in talons flying low overhead
Little tern
Cape penduline tit
Grey tit
Red knot

But no matter how hard we looked, none of the bar-tailed godwits would turn into a blacktailed, so now I am on

488

Well done to everyone who have picked up new Lifers! It is a nice time of year to bird!

Good one Leonie! Glad you got there. Good milestone to reach!

Dickinson's kestrel (Mahonie Loop), Bushveld pipit (Mpongolo wilderness area) and African broadbill at Golwe camp gives me +3 to go to 626

I missed Leonie's milestone... But it is never too late to say well done!

I remember when we were neck and neck Joh, but you have left me for dead....well done!

Set myself free for some hours and
turned to the bushes



139 White-fronted Bee-eater
140 Sedge Warbler
141 Fiscal Flycatcher

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After a weekend near Koster I can also add 1 to my total
Tinkling Cisticola now 625

Got past my target of Jan 09
332 it is!

I am on 504 after South African Cliff Swallow at Devon and the following in Kruger:
Mosque Swallow
Southern Carmine Bee-eater
Senegal Lapwing
Brown-crowned Tchagra
Common Cuckoo
Allen's Gallinule
Dwarf Bittern

I am currently on 122 birds, having added these during a trip to the Faan Meintjies reserve:
African stonechat
Buffy pipit
Northern black korhaan
Spike heeled lark
Blackthroated canary.

Target for 2012 still 150.

4 new birds for me - total 297 Total still 350

Goldentailed Woodpecker
Brown Snake Eagle
Thick-billed weaver
Southern Grey-headed Sparrow

A few more to ID from photos, hopefully I'll pass 300 next month

I see I forgot to update my number here. I added Mottled Spinetail, Green Twinspot and African Broadbill in Venda at the beginning of the year and last week Skopsie helped me find a pair of Magpie Mannikins in the fields around Tzaneen. Total is now 697.