The Ramble - Day 2 Cape Town

We headed just north of Cape Town - Darling Hills - with a young man (Oli) who was job-shadowing Vince. He found me a White Stork (Lifer) before we left the city and a Brimstone Canary (Lifer) at our first stop -- much to Vince's surprise because that is a very unexpected bird in that spot at this time of year.

First stop - Coffee Shop

Hartlaub's Gull

Next stop - Ganzekrall Road

Brimstone Canary

Spotted Thick-Knee

Rock Kestrel

Grey-winged Francolin

Black-bellied Bustard

Southern Red-Bishop

Malachite Sunbird

Off to Darling Hills/Groote Post Road

Black-winged Kite

African Marsh-harrier

Wattled Starling

Cape Wagtail

Cape Sparrow

Chestnut-vented Tit-babbler

Western Cattle Egret

Common Ostrich - breeding plumage

Light colored Helmeted Guineafowl

Jackal Buzzard

Reed (Long-tailed) Cormorant

Southern Fiscal

Malachite Sunbird

Capped Wheatear

Southern Double-collared Sunbird

Southern Masked Weaver

And for the finale Intaka Island a bird sanctuary in the middle of a shopping mall in downtown Cape Town!

Look closely -- there is a blurry Little Bittern

Common Moorhen

African Swamphen

Grey Heron

Purple Heron

Lesser Swamp Warbler

Yellow-billed Duck

African Darter

Malachite Kingfisher

Eurasian Collard-Dove

Egyptian Goose

Black Crake

Red-knobbed Coot

Common Bulbul

Confirmation at end of day that the Pelagic is not going out the next day. High winds and Cross waves are not a good combination for a fairly small boat. I'm beginning to think a pelagic in Cape Town is not in the cards for me -- this is the second attempt... Tomorrow -- West Coast National Park!