February has been very busy and I was fortunte to went out with a
number of birders in various hot spots around the Soutpansberg areas.
Thohoyandou Bot Garden is one of the hottest spot with every birder
visiting this forest so far with one of the sought after bird the
Blue-Spotted Wood-Dove.Other common birds include Pink Throated
Twinspot
Eastern Nicator
Tambourine Dove
Gorgeous Bushshrike
Red Capped Robin-Chat
Grey Cuckooshrike
Lesser Honeyguide and Green Twinspot.
Luvuvhu River and Dams in the farms produced as always African Finfoot,
African Pygmy Goose
Half Collared Kingfisher
Horus Swift
Allen's Gallinule
Lesser Jacana
White Backed Duck and African Black Duck
We went to Hanglip forest which is an esasily accessible
Afro-temperarate mist belt forest with a picnic site and trails and
some of the highligted birds amongst others were Crested Guineafowls
Grey Cuckooshrike
Yellow Sreaked Greenbul
Olive Woodpecker
Knysna Turaco
Lemon Dove
Olive Thrush
Green Twinspot
African Olive Pegion
Steppe Buzzard.
Another interesting site we went to was the Sewerage dams in Louis
Trichardt and there we picked out a number of birds like Green
Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Common Greenshank
Three Banded Plover
Black Crake
African Jacana
African Fish Eagle
At Roodewal Nature Forest the birds seen there were African Broadbill
Eastern Nicator
Gorgeous Bushshrike
Green Twinspot
Narina Trogon
Scaly Throated Honeyguide
Buff Spotted Fluftail
African Crowned Eagle
Mountain Wagtail
Crested Guineafowl
Red Faced Cisticola
Sombre Greenbul
African Pygmy Kingfisher
Purple Crested Turaco
Tambourine Dove.
We also went to Entabeni Forest and some of the notable sightings
include Bat Hawks
Orange Ground Thrush
Forest Buzzard
Yellow Streaked Greenbul
Jackal Buzzard
Green Twinspot
Swee Waxbill
White Starred Robin
Chorister Robin Chat
Knysna Turaco and Olive Woodpecker.
Happy Birding,
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Samson Mulaudzi
LIMPOPO BIRD GUIDE
Specialist for Soutpansberg and Venda
Cell:+27(0)83 662 9960
Email: samson.birdguide@webmail.co.za
mulaudzims@googlemail.com
Web:www.birdingroutes.co.za
Operating Areas:Roodewal
Forest,Entabeni,Muirhead,Hanglip,Thohoyandou,Sagole and Kruger Park in
Limpopo Province.
My Blog: www.samsonbirding.blogspot.com
Registered SABAP & BIRP Observer No:2187
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