Bird Walk at the Kirstenbosch Gardens

Scenes from Kirstenbosch

I have noticed how my walking focus this year is squeezing out my interest in bird watching. My binoculars get left behind and the determined walking does not allow for a quick stop to see what is flitting in a bush or tree.

So yesterday I joined the Cape Bird Club on their outing to Kirstenbosch.
Bird list: African Goshawk, Malachite Sunbird, Jackal Buzzard, Red-winged Starling, Helmeted Guineafowl, Dusky Flycatcher, Cape Robin-chat, Bar-throated Apalis, Pied Crow, Forest Canary, Black Sparrowhawk, White-breated Cormorant, Olive Thrush, Spotted Eagle Owl, Orange-breasted Sunbird, African Olive Pigeon, Southern Double-collared Sunbird, Egyptian Goose, Hadeda, Cape Spurfowl, Red-eyed Dove, Cape Bulbul, Swee Waxbill, Karoo Prinia, Cape White-eye, Sombre Greenbul.

A nice list. We spent the day in the gardens. I did not track the walk but my knees were aching and I felt tired having not gone very far!

Cannot wait to be walking again.

Update: A second day of ambling through a beautiful kitchen garden, Babylonstoren. A warm day, sunny and lovely to see this garden again, with it's citrus ripening at present.