A very good weekend at Shiluvari Lakeside Lodge birding trails with
birders attending the Soutpansberg forest and birding festival.
On Thursday afternoon I led them along the birding trails I have put
around the lodge and we have a superb list of birds amongst others top
of the list Gorgeous Bushshrike,Crested Guineafowl,Red Faced
Cisticola,African Wood Owl,Osprey,Golden Weaver,Yellow Throated
Longclaw,Lizard Buzzard,African Fish Eagle,Cape Grassbird,Red Backed
Manikkin,Lesser Honeyguide,Orange Breasted Bushshrike, about 5 species
of Sunbird such as Greater Double Collared Sunbird,Amethyst
Sunbird,Scarlet Chested Sunbird,Collared Sunbird and White Bellied
Sunbird.White Throated and White Browed Robin Chat,Cardinal,Bearded
and Golden Tailed Woodpecker,Red Billed and African Firefinch,Southern
Black and Ashy Flycatcher,Cape and Chinspot Batis,Neddicky,Cape and
African Pied Wagtail,Green Backed Camaroptera,Giant,Pied,Malachite and
Half Collared Kingfishers.
We had about 97 birds in and around Shiluvari Lodge garden and birding trails.
More on Soutpansberg Birding on Birdlife SA Birding Route pages of
Country Life July and August Magazine.
Happy Birding.
Shiluvari Lakeside Lodge
Samson Mulaudzi.
Mottled Spinetail Project co-ordinator
Limpopo Specialist Birdguide(Soutpansberg and Venda)
Cell:083 662 9960
Email: mulaudzims@googlemail.coM
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