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<blockquote data-quote="dandsblair" data-source="post: 3184073" data-attributes="member: 107571"><p><strong>Drive back to Kumasi and Bobiri</strong></p><p></p><p>Drive to Kumasi – After a hearty breakfast, we set off for Kumasi retracing our journey of a few days earlier. We had missed one of our target birds in Mole; a Beaudouin’s Snake Eagle, so for the first 30 miles we were stopping for every likely bird of prey trying to find one. We saw loads of<strong> Lizard Buzzards, Yellow-billed Kites, Grasshopper Buzzards, Kestrel, Shikra </strong>and <strong>Marsh Harrier</strong>, but we didn’t see the Snake Eagle, consolation came by way of <strong>Northern Carmine Bee-eater, Blue-throated Kingfisher</strong>, and <strong><span style="color: Red">Red-chested Swallow</span></strong>.</p><p></p><p>Just to complete some of the birds we saw at Mole we should add, <strong>Slender-billed Weaver, Little Weaver, Black-necked Weaver, White-billed Buffalo Weaver, Bush Petronia, Grey-headed Sparrow, Fork-tailed Drongo, Double-spurred Francolin, Tawny Eagle, African Thrush, Black-crowned Tchagra, Laughing Dove</strong>. And <strong>Pygmy, Beautiful, Scarlet Chested and Splendid Sunbirds </strong>were all seen regularly, while we also had <strong>Blackcap </strong>and<strong> Brown Babbler </strong>and on the slope just by the viewing platform we had <strong><span style="color: red">White-fronted Black Chat </span></strong>one lunchtime.</p><p></p><p>We would no longer stop at Offinso forest on the way back instead we would drop our stuff at Kumasi place our order for dinner and head to Bobiri to try for some late afternoon birds. Bobiri Forest Reserve which is actually a butterfly sanctuary has a great bird list, but we didn’t see a great deal on our first visit, we had <strong>Velvet-mantled Drongo, Broad-billed Roller, Pied Hornbill, European Honey Buzzard, Speckled Pigeon, African Hobby</strong>, before we got our first new bird a<strong><span style="color: red"> Yellow-throated Greenbul </span></strong>and we tried a couple of places for Owls (Wood which would have been nice but seen before, and Akun which I we really wanted) but nothing was heard or seen despite trying a few places. As we were late Victor and Appiah just dropped us off and headed on to their lodgings and we did get a <strong>Northern White-faced Owl </strong>in the tree we had seen a pair in before. Victor reckons that the hotel grounds back on to some forest attached to the University (unfortunately we couldn’t visit) and that is probably where these owls and some <strong>Straw–coloured Fruit Bats</strong> also in the grounds come from.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dandsblair, post: 3184073, member: 107571"] [b]Drive back to Kumasi and Bobiri[/b] Drive to Kumasi – After a hearty breakfast, we set off for Kumasi retracing our journey of a few days earlier. We had missed one of our target birds in Mole; a Beaudouin’s Snake Eagle, so for the first 30 miles we were stopping for every likely bird of prey trying to find one. We saw loads of[B] Lizard Buzzards, Yellow-billed Kites, Grasshopper Buzzards, Kestrel, Shikra [/B]and [B]Marsh Harrier[/B], but we didn’t see the Snake Eagle, consolation came by way of [B]Northern Carmine Bee-eater, Blue-throated Kingfisher[/B], and [B][COLOR="Red"]Red-chested Swallow[/COLOR][/B]. Just to complete some of the birds we saw at Mole we should add, [B]Slender-billed Weaver, Little Weaver, Black-necked Weaver, White-billed Buffalo Weaver, Bush Petronia, Grey-headed Sparrow, Fork-tailed Drongo, Double-spurred Francolin, Tawny Eagle, African Thrush, Black-crowned Tchagra, Laughing Dove[/B]. And [B]Pygmy, Beautiful, Scarlet Chested and Splendid Sunbirds [/B]were all seen regularly, while we also had [B]Blackcap [/B]and[B] Brown Babbler [/B]and on the slope just by the viewing platform we had [B][COLOR="red"]White-fronted Black Chat [/COLOR][/B]one lunchtime. We would no longer stop at Offinso forest on the way back instead we would drop our stuff at Kumasi place our order for dinner and head to Bobiri to try for some late afternoon birds. Bobiri Forest Reserve which is actually a butterfly sanctuary has a great bird list, but we didn’t see a great deal on our first visit, we had [B]Velvet-mantled Drongo, Broad-billed Roller, Pied Hornbill, European Honey Buzzard, Speckled Pigeon, African Hobby[/B], before we got our first new bird a[B][COLOR="red"] Yellow-throated Greenbul [/COLOR][/B]and we tried a couple of places for Owls (Wood which would have been nice but seen before, and Akun which I we really wanted) but nothing was heard or seen despite trying a few places. As we were late Victor and Appiah just dropped us off and headed on to their lodgings and we did get a [B]Northern White-faced Owl [/B]in the tree we had seen a pair in before. Victor reckons that the hotel grounds back on to some forest attached to the University (unfortunately we couldn’t visit) and that is probably where these owls and some [B]Straw–coloured Fruit Bats[/B] also in the grounds come from. [/QUOTE]
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