Lynedoch Winter List

Last Saturday (7th of Aug), a 3-person team set off to do the winter bird list at Lynedoch Eco Village as a follow-up to the Summer list we did in January.  In total, we listed 30 birds, 17 of them the same species as in January but 13 of them were totally different  birds. 

Thanks to Jill Heistein for joining us for the morning.

There was much nest-building by the Cape Weavers in full breeding face flush

 and Southern Masked Weavers in full face mask.

Lots of Cape Sparrows, something we don't see in Franschhoek so much anymore.

And there were plenty of White-backed Mousebirds to keep us entertained.

 Cape Robin-chat, my namesake.

 We stopped off at Spier after the listing to add a few more birds to our atlasing card and found this sleepy African Darter on the water.

And we took photos of the weavers nest for the ADU's virtual museum (for more info on this new interesting website, click here).