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Here are my sightings for Namibia 2006. It is not a comprehensive list of what I saw at each site but what I added to my trip list as I travelled through the country. I hired a fully equipt Landrover Defender from Safari Drive Uk. The truck had a roof tent. I camped and staying in lodges during my trip.
I did not visit Aus or the Caprivi strip during this part of my African adventure (Tanzania list to follow).
My favourite location was Hobatere Lodge on the Western edge of Etosha. I found the owner Steve and his staff made a special effort to assist me to see the endemics on their private reserve. A good location for owls many heard around the accomodation area at night. A night in their treehouse in a remote part of the reserve added another dimension to my experience with a male lion to keep me company at the waterhole overnight!
Etosha is also a good place for watching game with a floodlite waterhole at each of the camps. Okaukuejo was the most commercial of the camps with many large groups camping at the site. Not a place to stay at if you like peace and quiet! Black Rhino were a regular feature at all the floodlite waterholes. Lion were seen every day in particular at Goas waterhole in the centre of the reserve.
Walvis Bay was particularly good for waders. If you visit this area make sure you visit the salt marshes at low tide African Oystercatcher visit this area at this time. I unfortunately did not tick this species on this trip.
Sightings:-
09/06 Sundown Lodge Windhoek
Ring Necked Dove x5
Laughing Dove x1
Little Swift x1
White Backed Mousebird x2 photo
Pied Barbet x1
Rock Martin x6 photo
Black Fronted Bulbul x2 photo
Short Toed Rock Thrush x1
Cape Crombec x1
Familiar Chat x1
Rockrunner x1
Fork Tailed Drongo x2
Red Billed Quelea x1
Green Winged Pytilia x1
Violet Eared Waxbill x3 photo
Common Waxbill x2
Black Faced Waxbill x4 photo
09/06 Road B1 to Okahandja
Yellow Billed Hornbill x1
09/06 Road B2 to Karibib
Pale Chanting Goshawk x1 photo
10/06 Spitzkoppe Camp
Rock Kestrel x1
Rueppells Bustard x3M photo
Alpine Swift x4
Red Faced Mousebird x1
Sabota Lark x2 photo
Black Chested Prinia x1M
Chestnut Vented Tit Babler x2
Mountain Wheatear x1M
Marico Sunbird x1M
Dusky Sunbird x1m
Bokmakierie x1
Pale Winged Starling x7 photo
Scaly Feathered Finch (Weaver) x5
White Browed Sparrow Weaver x3 photo
Lark Like Bunting x3
11/06 Spitzkoppe Camp
Spotted Eagle Owl x2 Heard early morning
Bearded Woodpecker x1F
Dusky Sunbird x1M imm
Common Fiscal x1
Brubru x1
11/06 Road B2 SpitzKoppe to Swakopmund
Pied Crow x2
11/06 Walvis Bay Lagoon
Great Crested Tern x1 W
Great White Pelican x3 photo
White Breasted Cormorant x3
Cape Cormorant x8
Grey Heron x3
Little Egret x1
Greater Flamingo x17 imm +1a
Pied Avocet x2 1imm
Blacksmith Plover x3
White Fronted Plover x10c photo
Bar Tailed Godwit x18 photo
Ruddy Turnstone x1
Red Knot x2 W
Curlew Sandpiper x11 W
Cape Kelp Gull x11 photo
Hartlaubs Gull x5 1as photo
Cape Wagtail x2 photo
12/06 Walvis Bay Lagoon & Salt Pans
Black Necked Grebe c.20 W & S
Black Winged Stilt 41x a & imm photo
Pied Avocet c.200 a & imm photo
Greenshank x7
Curlew Sandpiper c.1000 photo
Yellow Billed Egret x2
Greater Flamingo c.1000 a & imm
12/06 Walvis Bay Bird Sanctuary (Old Sewage Farm)
Lesser Flamingo c.150 photo
Cape Teal x14
Hottentot Teal x1
Purple Gallinule x4
Moorhen x5
Red Knobbed Coot x1
Three Banded Plover x1
Pearl Breasted Swallow x2
African Reed Warbler x1
13/06 Walvis Bay Lagoon and Salt Pans
Chestnut Banded Plover x25 M F J photo
Caspian Tern x1
Grey Plover 1 as photo
13/06 Walvis Bay Bird Sanctuary (Old Sewage Farm)
Southern Masked Weaver x2
14/06 Swakopmund
Damara Tern x1w
Whimbrel x1
13/06 Beach Lodge Swakomund
Cape Gannet c.50
13/06 Guano Platform Walvis Bay
Crowned Cormorant x10
1 hour before dusk c.20000 cormorants present on platform.
15/06 Swakopmund
Cape Sparrow (Mossie) x9 M F J
16/06 Road C35 to Uis
Crowned Lapwing x4
Namaqua Sandgrouse x2 M F
16/06 Brandberg Mountain
Red Billed Frankolin x2
Speckled Pigeon x2
Grey Go Away Bird x2 photo
Glossy Starling x1
17/06 Brandberg Mountain
Black Breasted Snake Eagle x1 photo
African Hawk Eagle x1
Namaqua Dove x1 M photo
Common Scimitar Bill x1
Grey Backed Camaroptera x1
Carp's Tit x2
18/06 Hobatere Lodge Etosha
Black Shouldered Kite x1
White Backed Vulture x1
Double Banded Sandgrouse x1
African Scops Owl x2
Swallow Tailed Bee Eater x2
Lilac Breasted Roller x1
African Hoopoe x2
Monteiro's Hornbill x2
African Pipit x1
Groundscraper Thrush x2
White Crowned Shrike x3
Red Billed Buffalo Weaver x1
19/06 Hobatere Lodge Etosha walk with Steve (Owner)
Lappet Faced Vulture x1
Little Sparrowhawk x1
Tawny Eagle x1
Secretary Bird x1
Rosy Faced Lovebird x3 photo
Rueppell's Parrot x1 photo
Bradfield's Swift c.60
Melodious Lark x1
Southern Penduline Tit x1
Crimson Breasted Shrike x1 M
Long Tailed Glossy Starling x6
Southern Grey Headed Sparrow x1
Red Headed Finch x1
Shaft Tailed Whydah c.20
Black Throated Canary x1
Cinnamon Breasted Bunting x5
Golden Breasted Bunting x1
20/06 Hobatere Lodge Etosha Tree House Hide (Overnight)
Augur Buzzard x2
Double Banded Sandgrouse c.60
Pearl Spotted Owlett x1 photo
Monteiro's Hornbill x1
African Grey Hornbill x1
Southern Anteater Chat x3
Black Backed Puffback x1
21/06 Okaukuejo Etosha
Green Heron x1
Northern Black Korhaan x2
Double Banded Courser x3
Capped Wheatear x1
Social Weaver c.20
22/06 Okaukuejo Etosha
Ostrich x1
Egyptian Goose x1
Bateleur x2 M F photo
African Goshawk x1 photo
Pygmy Falcon x1
Kori Bustard x3 M F photo
Chat Flycatcher x1
Mariqua Flycatcher x1 photo
White Winged Scrub Robin x2
Three Streaked Tchagra x1
Cape Crow x2
23/06 Halali Etosha
Greater Kestrel x1
24/06 Halali Etosha
Red Billed Teal x11 photo
25/06 Namutoni Etosha
Blue Crane x4
Greater Painted Snipe x3 M F photo
Kittlitz Plover x2
Burchell's Glossy Starling x1
27/06 Waterberg Plateau Park
Cardinal Woodpecker x1 F
Yellow Rumped Eremomela x2
Pririt Batis x3 M F
Ashy Tit x1
Blue Breasted Cordonbleu x1
28/06 Waterberg Plateau Park
Violet Woodhoopoe x1 Imm photo
I did not visit Aus or the Caprivi strip during this part of my African adventure (Tanzania list to follow).
My favourite location was Hobatere Lodge on the Western edge of Etosha. I found the owner Steve and his staff made a special effort to assist me to see the endemics on their private reserve. A good location for owls many heard around the accomodation area at night. A night in their treehouse in a remote part of the reserve added another dimension to my experience with a male lion to keep me company at the waterhole overnight!
Etosha is also a good place for watching game with a floodlite waterhole at each of the camps. Okaukuejo was the most commercial of the camps with many large groups camping at the site. Not a place to stay at if you like peace and quiet! Black Rhino were a regular feature at all the floodlite waterholes. Lion were seen every day in particular at Goas waterhole in the centre of the reserve.
Walvis Bay was particularly good for waders. If you visit this area make sure you visit the salt marshes at low tide African Oystercatcher visit this area at this time. I unfortunately did not tick this species on this trip.
Sightings:-
09/06 Sundown Lodge Windhoek
Ring Necked Dove x5
Laughing Dove x1
Little Swift x1
White Backed Mousebird x2 photo
Pied Barbet x1
Rock Martin x6 photo
Black Fronted Bulbul x2 photo
Short Toed Rock Thrush x1
Cape Crombec x1
Familiar Chat x1
Rockrunner x1
Fork Tailed Drongo x2
Red Billed Quelea x1
Green Winged Pytilia x1
Violet Eared Waxbill x3 photo
Common Waxbill x2
Black Faced Waxbill x4 photo
09/06 Road B1 to Okahandja
Yellow Billed Hornbill x1
09/06 Road B2 to Karibib
Pale Chanting Goshawk x1 photo
10/06 Spitzkoppe Camp
Rock Kestrel x1
Rueppells Bustard x3M photo
Alpine Swift x4
Red Faced Mousebird x1
Sabota Lark x2 photo
Black Chested Prinia x1M
Chestnut Vented Tit Babler x2
Mountain Wheatear x1M
Marico Sunbird x1M
Dusky Sunbird x1m
Bokmakierie x1
Pale Winged Starling x7 photo
Scaly Feathered Finch (Weaver) x5
White Browed Sparrow Weaver x3 photo
Lark Like Bunting x3
11/06 Spitzkoppe Camp
Spotted Eagle Owl x2 Heard early morning
Bearded Woodpecker x1F
Dusky Sunbird x1M imm
Common Fiscal x1
Brubru x1
11/06 Road B2 SpitzKoppe to Swakopmund
Pied Crow x2
11/06 Walvis Bay Lagoon
Great Crested Tern x1 W
Great White Pelican x3 photo
White Breasted Cormorant x3
Cape Cormorant x8
Grey Heron x3
Little Egret x1
Greater Flamingo x17 imm +1a
Pied Avocet x2 1imm
Blacksmith Plover x3
White Fronted Plover x10c photo
Bar Tailed Godwit x18 photo
Ruddy Turnstone x1
Red Knot x2 W
Curlew Sandpiper x11 W
Cape Kelp Gull x11 photo
Hartlaubs Gull x5 1as photo
Cape Wagtail x2 photo
12/06 Walvis Bay Lagoon & Salt Pans
Black Necked Grebe c.20 W & S
Black Winged Stilt 41x a & imm photo
Pied Avocet c.200 a & imm photo
Greenshank x7
Curlew Sandpiper c.1000 photo
Yellow Billed Egret x2
Greater Flamingo c.1000 a & imm
12/06 Walvis Bay Bird Sanctuary (Old Sewage Farm)
Lesser Flamingo c.150 photo
Cape Teal x14
Hottentot Teal x1
Purple Gallinule x4
Moorhen x5
Red Knobbed Coot x1
Three Banded Plover x1
Pearl Breasted Swallow x2
African Reed Warbler x1
13/06 Walvis Bay Lagoon and Salt Pans
Chestnut Banded Plover x25 M F J photo
Caspian Tern x1
Grey Plover 1 as photo
13/06 Walvis Bay Bird Sanctuary (Old Sewage Farm)
Southern Masked Weaver x2
14/06 Swakopmund
Damara Tern x1w
Whimbrel x1
13/06 Beach Lodge Swakomund
Cape Gannet c.50
13/06 Guano Platform Walvis Bay
Crowned Cormorant x10
1 hour before dusk c.20000 cormorants present on platform.
15/06 Swakopmund
Cape Sparrow (Mossie) x9 M F J
16/06 Road C35 to Uis
Crowned Lapwing x4
Namaqua Sandgrouse x2 M F
16/06 Brandberg Mountain
Red Billed Frankolin x2
Speckled Pigeon x2
Grey Go Away Bird x2 photo
Glossy Starling x1
17/06 Brandberg Mountain
Black Breasted Snake Eagle x1 photo
African Hawk Eagle x1
Namaqua Dove x1 M photo
Common Scimitar Bill x1
Grey Backed Camaroptera x1
Carp's Tit x2
18/06 Hobatere Lodge Etosha
Black Shouldered Kite x1
White Backed Vulture x1
Double Banded Sandgrouse x1
African Scops Owl x2
Swallow Tailed Bee Eater x2
Lilac Breasted Roller x1
African Hoopoe x2
Monteiro's Hornbill x2
African Pipit x1
Groundscraper Thrush x2
White Crowned Shrike x3
Red Billed Buffalo Weaver x1
19/06 Hobatere Lodge Etosha walk with Steve (Owner)
Lappet Faced Vulture x1
Little Sparrowhawk x1
Tawny Eagle x1
Secretary Bird x1
Rosy Faced Lovebird x3 photo
Rueppell's Parrot x1 photo
Bradfield's Swift c.60
Melodious Lark x1
Southern Penduline Tit x1
Crimson Breasted Shrike x1 M
Long Tailed Glossy Starling x6
Southern Grey Headed Sparrow x1
Red Headed Finch x1
Shaft Tailed Whydah c.20
Black Throated Canary x1
Cinnamon Breasted Bunting x5
Golden Breasted Bunting x1
20/06 Hobatere Lodge Etosha Tree House Hide (Overnight)
Augur Buzzard x2
Double Banded Sandgrouse c.60
Pearl Spotted Owlett x1 photo
Monteiro's Hornbill x1
African Grey Hornbill x1
Southern Anteater Chat x3
Black Backed Puffback x1
21/06 Okaukuejo Etosha
Green Heron x1
Northern Black Korhaan x2
Double Banded Courser x3
Capped Wheatear x1
Social Weaver c.20
22/06 Okaukuejo Etosha
Ostrich x1
Egyptian Goose x1
Bateleur x2 M F photo
African Goshawk x1 photo
Pygmy Falcon x1
Kori Bustard x3 M F photo
Chat Flycatcher x1
Mariqua Flycatcher x1 photo
White Winged Scrub Robin x2
Three Streaked Tchagra x1
Cape Crow x2
23/06 Halali Etosha
Greater Kestrel x1
24/06 Halali Etosha
Red Billed Teal x11 photo
25/06 Namutoni Etosha
Blue Crane x4
Greater Painted Snipe x3 M F photo
Kittlitz Plover x2
Burchell's Glossy Starling x1
27/06 Waterberg Plateau Park
Cardinal Woodpecker x1 F
Yellow Rumped Eremomela x2
Pririt Batis x3 M F
Ashy Tit x1
Blue Breasted Cordonbleu x1
28/06 Waterberg Plateau Park
Violet Woodhoopoe x1 Imm photo