Quite a drive today for our day trip as we moved through Cape Town, east across the townships in Mitchell's Plain before turning south for a spectacular coastal drive along the eastern flank of False Bay. Rooi-Els was our first destination; an area of rocky coastline with a thin equally rocky heath covered coastal strip before a steep sloped high ridge. It was spectacular scenery with excellent birding and as Mike put it quietly as we were leaving, ' We could not have done better'.
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| Rooiels |
We had one major target species here and a number of slightly more minor ones and we achieved great success. The target was Cape Rockjumper and the strategy was to simply listen and watch for these active birds as they worked their way over the stony slopes.
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| male Cape Rockjumper |
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| male Cape Rockjumper |
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| Cape Rockthrush |
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| Orange breasted Sunbird |
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| Verreaux's Eagle |
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| Sentinel Rock-thrush |
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| Neddicky |
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| BIRD OF THE DAY - GROUND WOODPECKERS |
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| Cape Siskin |
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| Cape Siskin in focus |
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| Fiscal Flycatcher |
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| Southern Grey headed Sparrow |
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| Skyline at Harold Porter National Botanical Gardens |
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| Malachite Sunbird |
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| Malachite Sunbird male |
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| Cape Sugarbird [as usual] on protea |
Malachite sunbird is gorgeous. Skyline is superb. Bill Smith. Margaret Gibbs
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