My garden list at 99!! (1 Viewer)

Putting out feeders, making a pond and planting indigenous with a lot of creepers my efforts are starting to pay off!!

My Garden Bird List 2006/7/8 updated
Birds seen more than 3 times perching in garden (with Roberts numbers)

1. 71 Cattle Egret
2. 81 Hamerkop
3. 94 Hadeda Ibis
4. 127 Black-shouldered Kite
5. 128 African Cuckoo Hawk
6. 136 Booted Eagle
7. 154 Lizard Buzzard
8. 169 Gymnogene
9. 171 Peregrine Falcon
10. 172 Lanner Falcon
11. 203 Helmeted Guineafowl
12. 297 Spotted Dikkop
13. 352 Red-eyed Dove
14. 354 Cape Turtle Dove
15. 355 Laughing Dove
16. 358 Emerald-spotted Wood-dove
17. 359 Tambourine Dove
18. 361 African Green Pigeon
19. 373 Grey Lourie
20. 382 Jacobin’s Cuckoo
21. 385 Klaas’s Cuckoo
22. 386 Diederik Cuckoo
23. 391 Burchell’s Coucal
24. 392 Barn Owl
25. 401 Spotted Eagle Owl
26. 409 Mozambique Nightjar
27. 424 Speckled Mousebird
28. 426 Red-faced Mousebird
29. 429 Giant Kingfisher
30. 432 African Pygmy Kingfisher
31. 433 Woodland Kingfisher
32. 435 Brown-hooded Kingfisher
33. 437 Striped Kingfisher
34. 438 European Bee-eater
35. 444 Little Bee-eater
36. 451 African Hoopoe
37. 452 Red-billed Woodhoopoe
38. 457 African Grey Hornbill
39. 458 Red-billed Hornbill
40. 459 Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
41. 464 Black-collared Barbet
42. 470 Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
43. 473 Crested Barbet
44. 475 Scaly-throated Honeyguide
45. 487 Bearded Woodpecker
46. 522 Wire-tailed Swallow
47. 527 Lesser-striped Swallow
48. 538 Black Cuckooshrike
49. 541 Fork-tailed Drongo
50. 545 Black-headed Oriole
51. 548 Pied Crow
52. 568 Black-eyed Bulbul
53. 576 Kurrichane Thrush
54. 580 Groundscraper Thrush
55. 613 White-browed Scrub-robin
56. 648 Yellow-breasted Apalis
57. 655 Green-capped Eremomela
58. 657 Green-backed Bleating Warbler
59. 672 Rattling Cisticola
60. 683 Tawny-flanked Prinia
61. 689 Spotted Flycatcher
62. 696 Pallid Flycatcher
63. 701 Chin-spot Batis
64. 710 Paradise-flycatcher
65. 711 African Pied Wagtail
66. 713 Cape Wagtail
67. 733 Red-backed Shrike
68. 740 Puffback
69. 744 Black-crowned Tchagra
70. 748 Orange-breasted Bush Shrike
71. 751 Grey-headed Bush Shrike
72. 753 White Helmeted Shrike
73. 761 Plum-coloured Starling
74. 764 Cape Glossy Starling
75. 787 White-bellied Sunbird
76. 791 Scarlet-chested Sunbird
77. 801 House Sparrow
78. 804 Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
79. 807 Thick-billed Weaver
80. 810 Spectacled Weaver
81. 811 Spotted-backed Weaver
82. 819 Red-headed Weaver
83. 821 Red-billed Quelea
84. 829 White-winged Widow
85. 831 Red-collared Widow
86. 840 Blue-billed Firefinch
87. 842 Red-billed Firefinch
88. 844 Blue Waxbill
89. 855 Cut-throat Finch
90. 857 Bronze Mannikin
91. 858 Red-backed Mannikin
92. 860 Pin-tailed Whydah
93. 862 Paradise Whydah
94. 864 Black Widow Finch
95. 867 Steel-blue Widow Finch
96. 869 Yellow-eyed Canary
97. 884 Golden-breasted Bunting
98. 885 Cape Bunting
99. 886 Rock Bunting
Fly-overs:
1. 55 White-breasted Cormorant
2. 58 Reed Cormorant
3. 63 Black headed Heron
4. 99 White-faced Duck
5. 102 Egyptian Geese
6. 115 Knob-billed Duck
7. 142 Brown Snake Eagle
8. 140 Martial Eagle
9. 143 Black-breasted Snake Eagle
10. 148 African Fish Eagle
11. 417 Little Swift
12. 418 Alpine Swift
13. 529 Rock Martin
14. 940 Yellow-billed Kite

Pretty impressive! So what do you want your 100th to be then?

I've heard Purple-crested Turacos calling down at the river. The day they will come and inspect the garden I will be the happiest man in the world!

sekororo said:

I've heard Purple-crested Turacos calling down at the river. The day they will come and inspect the garden I will be the happiest man in the world!

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Well I hope you get one soon :t:

That's a very impressive list! I love birding in Africa; those species bring back many happy memories.

I must go through and work out my balcony list at some point...

I don't like to keep lists but it encourage you when you look back and see the new species which arrived and the one special one that finally showed up after putting fruit out for six months. Well all you need is to book a ticket and pack your bins and you are here!