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Picked up 16 lifers in the last few weeks so now up to 480

Garden Warbler (Centurion)
Miombo Double-collared Sunbird (Harare)
Variable Sunbird (Harare)
Tropical Boubou (Harare)
Abdim's Stork (Harare)
African Yellow White-Eye (Harare)
Whyte's Barbet (Harare)
Marsh Warbler (Zaagkuildrift area)
Icterine Warbler (Zaagkuildrift area)
Common Whitethroat (Zaagkuildrift area)
Thrush Nightingale (Zaagkuildrift area)
Black-winged Pratincole (Zaagkuildrift area)
Southern Pied Babbler (Zaagkuildrift area)
Ashy Tit (Zaagkuildrift area)
Greater Spotted Cuckoo (Zaagkuildrift area)
Southern White-crowned Shrike (Zaagkuildrift area)

Eventaully picked up Ovambo Sparrowhawk while atlassing around Alberton.

Up to 603 now

Hi Pete (and all others)
The Roberts is a great birding tool, just do yourself a favour and back up your person bird list to cd/ memory stick. it appears that the bird list is saved as part of the program file and if your hard drive craches (as mine did) the bird lists are not amoungst your recovered data......
then you wind up doing it all over again manually....

Happy Birding all
Rodney

The same Ovambo Sparrowhawk that Leonie2 saw was my number 698.

Little Crake takes me to 489

Nice seeing you again Ferdelance, 848 for me now please!

Not that long in the end! Well done on that 905 Trevor!

I could unfortunately not rush off to see the Little Crake, but I did manage to add to my total following a trip to the Faan Meintjies reserve on Sunday. And good timing too, since we had a power outage here in Potch for a large part of the day. So a picnic lunch and a nice day of birding was a great alternative. Saw a nice variety of birds of which a few were new to me.

New total 132. Goal still 150.

New ticks at Faan Meintjies:
African spoonbill (an exciting sighting for me, but then I'm probably easily excitable )
Kalahari scrubrobin
Pale chanting goshawk (another nice one for me)
Redbreasted swallow
Southern greyheaded sparrow
Spotted flycatcher
Yellowbilled duck
and
Red-billed quelea (Eleaser road)
Greater kestrel (Eleazer road)
Wattled starling (showed up in my garden a few days ago).

Theres one more I still want to try to ID, but I'll see how it goes.

513 after some birding at Zaagkuil, KgomoKgomo and Wilgeriver delivered:
Willow Warbler
European Nightjar
Southern Pied Babbler
Great Sparrow
Black-faced Waxbill
Eastern Long-billed Lark
Lizard Buzzard
Black-winged Pratincole
Common Whitethroat

Thank you Lizet! Was good to see you there aswell! Was a fantastic outing for the bird. It just leaves us with one predicament this Little crake, its not offically on the list so we might have to wait before adding it..... Not really hey!

Ok, but That was the easiest twitch I have ever had, compared to spending 4 hours sunday afternoon looking for that phantom Franklin's gull at the strandfontein water works this was a breeze. No one could relocate the gull unfortunatly!

Ok so my list has offically climbed by 4 to 524! I still need to check the validity of my hartlaub's gull and bank cormorant photo's.....

Ok the 4 lifers were:
Little Crake (Clovelly)
African Penguin (Boulders)
Spotted Eagle Owl. (Kirstenbosch botanical gardens)
Greater Flamingo (Strandfontein Sewrege Works)

I also picked up 4 photo Lifers aswell in the form of:
Spectecled Pigeon
Cape Bulbul
Maccoa Duck
Forest Buzzard (Tokai)

Ferdelance I was also looking for that Franklin's Gull at Strandfontein yesterday afternoon. Probably bumped into you without even knowing it.

Haha Jee ok that could well have been! I was driving the little golden renault clio rental......

Pitty would have liked to stop and say howzit...... maybe next time then!

So did I chat to any of you on site on Saturday morning and didn't know about it?

Lizet? Ferdie?

Didn't see any YRs

I wonder how about some group pics? Unfortunately I don't have any people pics just took the 300mm lens with..

Check the 'Clovelly' thread. I posted one as did AjayB.