It was very hot when I left at 06.30 a warm 20 degrees c.I wanted to see if the Flamingos where still around.Most of them have moved on leaving about 20 Juveniles and Immature behind.Water levels continue to drop which obviously suits the Photographers as they are hoping more sandbanks will bring the birds closer to the hides.This is not an ideal situation from a pure bird point of view because a lot of the food bearing mud banks are now exposed to the hot spring weather which will dry out the mud and send the birds away in search of food. A trade off I suppose but we must remember it is actually a Bird Sanctuary and not a photographers Mecca and we need to be careful we do not end up with the scarcer species not disappearing.Not a bad two hours birding giving me a count of 32 species.The best for me was the fact there are a breeding pair of Red Necked Wrynecks in the picnic area giving me a lifer for Rondebult taking my count to 135 species for the BS.
African Purple Swamphen
Red Throated Wryneck
White Throated Swallow
Wood Sandpiper
Red Throated Wryneck
Red Knobbed Coot those feet are just huge.
Grey Headed Gull
Greater Striped Swallow
Immature Greater Flamingo
Black Headed Heron
Displaying African Purple Swamphen
Yellow Billed Duck
Grey Heron
Female Pin Tailed Wyhdah
Three Banded Plover.
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