Birds have always had the ability to bring me out of a dark space and provide relief in bad times.
Jason Ward
I just love sitting in my upstairs lounge with my first cup of coffee in the morning and watch the various species of birds come and feed on the bird seed and fruit I leave out for them. Their continuous chatter is music to my ears. In ten minutes I can easily list 12-14 species. I’ve classified “my garden” as everything that I have seen in my own garden, that of my neighbor, in our complex, the Cul de sac that I live in as well as all birds that have flown within visual range of my balcony. That total is currently at 82 species.
The birds that I have seen from my garden are –
White-breasted Cormorant
Reed Cormorant
Hadeda
African Sacred Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Grey Heron
Black-headed heron
Western Cattle Egret
White Stork
Egyptian Goose
African Black Duck
Black-chested Snake Eagle
Yellow-billed Kite
Black-winged Kite
Black Sparrowhawk
Ovambo Sparrowhawk
African Harrier-Hawk
Helmeted Guineafowl
Spotted thick-knee
Blacksmith Lapwing
Crowned Lapwing
African Wattled Lapwing
African Olive Pigeon
Speckled pigeon
Rock Dove
Cape Turtle Dove
Red-eye dove
Laughing dove
African Green Pigeon
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Grey Go-away-bird
Red-chested Cuckoo
Diederic Cuckoo
Burchell’s Coucal
Spotted Eagle-Owl
Little Swift
White-rumped Swift
African Palm Swift
Speckled Mousebird
Red-faced Mousebird
Brown-hooded Kingfisher
European Bee-eater
African Hoopoo
Green Wood-Hoopoo
Crested Barbet
Black-collared Barbet
Brown-backed Honeybird
Greater Honeyguide
Lesser Honeyguide
Red-throated Wryneck
Barn swallow
White-throated Swallow
Greater striped swallow
Brown-throated Martin
Pied Crow
Dark-capped Bulbul
Karoo Thrush
African Stonechat
Cape Robin-chat
Tawney-flanked Prinia
Fiscal Flycatcher
Cape White-eye
Cape wagtail
Southern Common Fiscal
Black-backed Puffback
Southern Boubou
Cape Glossy Starling
Red-winged starling
Common Myna
Amethyst Sunbird
White-bellied sunbird
Cape Sparrow
Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
House Sparrow
Thick-billed Weaver
Southern Masked Weaver
Red-billed Quelea
Southern Red Bishop
Pin-tailed Whydah
Red-headed Finch
Streaky-headed Seed-eater
Black-Throated Canary
