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There's a place I really enjoy on the False Bay side of Cape Point, I think its the spot called Bordjiesrif, where at the far northern end of the car park, there's a tidal basin and rocky beach where there are always lots and lots of terns, primarily swift terns with a few sandwich terns mixed in. I always stop there to spend some time watching these flocks wheeling over the water and often squabbling amongst themselves.

A group of swift terns


A swift tern (with a sandwich tern in the background)


A mixed group of swift and sandwich terns in flight

I enjoyed watching this swift tern (and many others, but these pix are all of the same bird) from the deck of my chalet at Tsitsikamma on 24 September 2011.