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Found this African Hawk Harrier - Gymnogene in my garden this morning yesterday I saw him find a baby bird and eat it in a palm tree about 150m from my garden I was able to stand about 10m from him and watch him as he enjoyed his breakfast.

In the past few weeks spotted two new species in my garden - streaky headed seedeaters (2) and a family of thick-billed weavers (male, female and juvenile) that visited my pond.

Three new visitors to the pond in the past few weeks - giant kingfisher, greenbacked heron and yesterday - a hamerkop!
While the first two were very nervous, this hamerkop was not in the least bit perturbed! It landed on the wall at the back of the pond, took a dip in the water and sat there a long time preening itself. My husband even went out the back door without it being disturbed!
In the end it flew off without attempting to fish.

We had two very interesting visitors this weekend - a Cape Parrot, and a Woodland Kingfisher!!!

Narina Trogan

just jokes.

mine would be a white bellied sunbird
and a southern boubou

Where did you see this LadyRaven??

My most interesting birds include:
Puffback
White fronted bee-eaters
Red-thoughted wryneck
Greater honey guide.

At one stage I also regularly had a reed cormorant that feasted on the tillapias in my pond.

welcome to the forums Imax!!!

you are really fortunate to have a reed cormarent visit your garden!

And even more so to have a Greater Honeyguide!

After many years, we have finally persuaded a flock40 or so White-breasted Cormorants from roosting in a Norfolk Pine in our back garden. We had become sick and tired of our back garden and the walls of our house being covered with BIG birdy-doo and puked-up chokka and fish.

I've been considering posting in this one a long time, so here goes.

At the moment we have a pair of African Hoopoes who've just successfully raised a chick. It's looking for food by itself now but still much smaller than the parents.
Supposing the warm winter so far caused that.

We have a large flock(?) of Cape White Eyes with a Fairy Flycatcher that joins them every summer. The Paradise Flycatchers come first, soon after the fairy is there.

In January we had an interesting evening visitor. A European Hobby was around for a couple of weeks catching bats at dusk. Something to see

A few years back a Cape Eagle Owl was uprooted from its usual place when construction on a shopping mall started. He made his home in a tree in front of our neighbour's house. Disappeared after a while.

The weirdest visitor of all was a Hamerkop that appeared out of nowhere on our neighbour's rooftop Where THAT came from we don't know. Could've been after the Koi fishes in our pond?

At the moment I have a common starling (etourneau sansonnet) who occupied the hole of a woodpecker (pic-vert)









this morning only one beak is open... the are ready to fly away, the parents are calling a little bit further

The Greater Honeyguide has however forced me to change my ring tone on my cellphone as I kept on running for the phone only to find that it is not ringing. It seems that I can change it back now as I have not seen or heard it since the start of winter.

Hi forumites!

This visitor dropped in over the weekend!



We think it is a juvenile gymnogene - our first ever close-up sighting of one. Could any of the bird experts confirm the ID please? Many thanx!

Yip! Immature Gymnogene. Nice sighting!