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Can't let you "sneak" into the 700s, Joël!

Ha, thanks, JvR! It's awesome and a milestone and everything, but it hardly feels like an accomplishment. The birds are always there - I have just been privileged to lay my eyes on 701 of them in Southern Africa so far.

After a wonderful trip to Southern Kruger my total is up by 18, putting me on 414 and my year-end total is 440.

Well done Johan!!!
Please up me to 562
Red-winged Francolin, Grey-winged Francolin and Fairy Flycatcher all at Suikerbos rand

Had a bit of a disaster. The kids played with my laptop with Roberts' Multimedia on it and guess what. . They spilled coldrink on it, frying the hard drive!
I have absolutely no idea what my total is now. Will haveto go through my books and see if that helps.

Oh my Roan - that is aweful! Technology is great when it is working - but if it takes a sip of coldrink and dies from it - it gets darn frustrating!

Thanks BB.
Yep. Back to old faithfull pencil and paper.

Picked up 2 more last weekend in the south of JHB so now up to 484
Target for 2012 is 500

Sickle-winged Chat (Alberton area)
Fairy Flycatcher (Klipriviersberg)

Gees, i got a jacket!

Well done Joel, great achievement.

I hope my Kruger trip in two weeks time will add the 9 I need for 600.

Don't speak to me about computers Roan the hotel server crashed with no backup - there goes my lists for the garden (over 130 birds including osprey) anf four nearby reserves along with statum - dates seen etc - I could cry we are talking six years of sightings here. To make it worse only a few days before I was saying that I needed to copy the info to my new computer. The geniuses are trying to retrieve our info but after four days I am begining to loose hope.

As I always say give me a landcruiser, a boat, a rifle, fishing rods, paper and pens and keep the rest of the modern world

New total is 417 after a weekend trip to Kuruman. Year-end total 450

Added Grey Penduline-tit in Zululand Rhino Reserve. Total now 605

My list is on 153. I managed to add Long crested eagle, Greycrowned crane and African pied wagtail during a trip to the Wild coast..., even though I didn't really have time for birding.
New goal for 2012 still 200 birds.

Up to 543 with Maccoa Duck, Eurasian Hobby, Jameson's Firefinch, Klaas's Cuckoo, Black Cuckooshrike, Half-collared Kingfisher, White-backed Duck, African Red-eyed Bulbul, Buffy Pipit, Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Fairy Flycatcher and Brown-backed Honeybird.

I'm up to 546 after a trip to Magoebaskloof and Kruger. Didn't add anything in Kruger, but around Magoebaskloof I got Drakensberg Prinia, Gurney's Sugarbird, Short-clawed Lark and Temminck's Courser in the grasslands around Kurisa Moya, and in Woodbush Forest I added Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher, White-starred Robin, Yellow-streaked Greenbul, Black-fronted Bushshrike, Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler, and got Bat Hawk at New Agatha