Three UK ringers, Les and I undertook 2 weeks of intense ringing, the first week being based at Botuin, and the second week at Nuwejaarsrivier (this blog, ebird report). Sites we ringed at: Haas Vlakte, Moddervlei, Kosierskraal, Zandvlakte and Vlooikraal.
Nuwejaars ringing totals: 310 birds of 47 species
Count English
1 Jackal Buzzard
1 African Marsh Harrier
2 African Rail
2 Black Crake
1 Three-banded Plover
1 Crowned Lapwing
5 Blacksmith Lapwing
5 African Snipe
3 Red-eyed Dove
4 Cape Turtle Dove
2 Fierynecked Nightjar
10 Speckled Mousebird
2 Giant Kingfisher
1 Malachite Kingfisher
1 Brown-hooded Kingfisher
4 Fork-tailed Drongo
23 Cape Bulbul
3 Sombre Greenbul
9 Cape Robin-chat
7 Lesser Swamp Warbler
5 Little Rush Warbler
1 Grassbird
6 Bar-throated Apalis
4 Levaillant’s Cisticola
8 Fiscal Flycatcher
5 Cape Batis
5 Cape Wagtail
4 Common Fiscal
4 Southern Boubou
1 Bokmakierie
2 Common Starling
2 Cape Sugarbird
14 Malachite Sunbird
8 Southern Double-collared Sunbird
4 Amethyst Sunbird
1 House Sparrow
8 Cape Sparrow
48 Cape Weaver
5 Southern Masked Weaver
7 Common Waxbill
4 Cape Canary
1 Streaky-headed Canary
2 Cape Bunting
2 Olive Thrush
63 Cape White-eye
2 Karoo Prinia
7 Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
