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Rule: In your garden alone.

Most interesting one I've had in my garden was most probably a female thick-billed weaver. Why? Cause I am living no where near water or reeds.

Also have a leucistic bulbul visiting frequently.

In my garden in Gabs, the most interesting I have seen is:

Yellow Billed Kite
Gymnogene
Ground Scraper Thrush
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and Woodlands Kingfisher

Kurrichane Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus found in the pool last year. Dried it off and after warming up a bit it took off as if nothing ever happened.

The most unusual bird I have seen in my property was a Jacobin's Cuckoo. We have the occasional Hoopoe, olive thrush, and Cape weaver also.
Have seen pelicans fly over my house, as well as yellow billed kite.
I have also seen a cheetah. In the annual air show they fly right over my house and I can see the pilot inside the cockpit.

Forgot to mention the Red-chested Cuckoo we had last summer and the Burchell's Coucal we had beginning of this last winter.

A pair of Glossy starlings that steal the cat's food on the back stoep. The birds are not very common in our area. Anyone else in the west rand area or thereabouts have any in the garden as I don't recall seeing them in earlier years?

Our garden is overflowing at the moment eg. Green pigeon, trumpeter hornbill, yellow spotted nicatar to name a few.

The most interesting is the arrival of the Diedrerik cuckoo who have a daily battle parasitising the masked and lesser weavers above the hotel entrance ( counts as my garden cause I live here).

Over the years I have had some interesting birds share my life and various gardens:
A giant eagle owl with one wing who decided that I would do nicely as a mate
A pale form whalburgs that some idiot hand reared and decided to let go because he could fly and would hunt by instinct - almost starved to death before he was brought to me stuffed in a canary cadge- took me almost a year to convince him that he was not a chicken.
A Pels fishing owl and a fish eagle hacked back in the Okavango when I was a kid.

The most interesting birds i've seen in my garden include the cape whiteye, glossy ibis, the burchells coucal, pintailed wydah and earlier this year we had resident wattled plovers on the lawn.
In my nabourhood, i've seen 2 giant eagle owls.

one day a friend of mine was out in the garden, and told me he saw an eagle of some sort perched on one of the garden steel arches. not sure what type though. he said large, dark and big wingspan.

I get the hadeda ibis, black eyed bulbul and african hoopoe frequently in my garden. The black eyed BB picks the new shoots off the tree as part of it's meal...
At the inlaws place around the corner they have a crested babet frequent their garden.

Wow, I think Johann takes the prize with his Kurrichane Buttonquail in the pool! But then, Jeanus also had a few awesome ones like Eastern Nicator and Giant Eagle Owl but I'm not sure I'm prepared to believe the Pel's Fishing Owl one...

My best bird for the garden would undoubtedly be Freckled Nightjar. It's been around in my parents' neighbourhood (in Pretoria) for several years now (and when I was still living there). In fact, they still call just about every night and, if you still need Freckled Nightjar, it's probably the easiest place to go twitch it.

Some other good ones we've had there include Gabar Goshawk and African Harrier-Hawk.

I havent seen but have heard, in the last two weeks, the Buff Spotted Fluff Tail again. Havent had them around for the last four years and now they are back again.

Had a Honey Buzzard in our garden once, also a Thrush Nightingale that stayed in a clump of bushes next to our fence for about 2 months last year. Seen a lot of stuff over the years though, Narina Trogon, White-starred Robin, Wood Owl, Cuckoo Hawk, Thick-billed Cuckoo, Blue-mantled Flycatcher, Cape Batis, Yellow-spotted Nicator and a ton of other things, our garden list is somewhere in the 190's at the moment.

Wow Johnd, you lucky dude.

Deefstes, please ask your parents if I may go over and view the nightjar.

Yes me too, but not this weekend or next as I will be in Paradise

By best garden birds would be
Diedreriks and Red Chested Cuckoo
Red Throated Wryneck
Fairy Flycatcher (winter only)
Grey Headed Bush Shrike
Bokmakierie
And then the usual friends

Other interesting ones include:

european bee-eater displaying above in summer,
burchell's coucal,
diederick cuckoo,
yellow-fronted canary,
red-headed finch,
bronze mannikin,
grey-headed sparrow,
rock pigeon breeding under my lapa (2 chicks have hatched),
Bar-throated Apalis (once),
Southern boubou and
white-bellied sunbird (mostly winter time).