Black Harriers, West Coast National Park, Cape Towm

 Our bird of the trip without doubt !

WOWSERS !!

Black Harriers, West Coast National Park

 

The Black Harriers in West Coast were simply stunning, beautiful birds but afraid, critically endangered.

African Shelduck

Jackel Buzzard

Malachite Sunbird on beautiful flowers

West Coast National Park, Cape Town

It is our last full day in Cape Town so we decided to make a further trip into West Coast National Park. The park is vast and we thought it would be a nice relaxing end to the trip to just drive and bird and see what came along. A lovely day where we stopped for our usual toasties and coffee at the cafe. The bird highlight of the day was a close fly over of a Black Harrier. We saw quite a few but usually they were distant.  A lovely end to our trip, loved it !

Klaas's Cuckoo

A few flowers from the reserve

and the views at the coast were simply beautiful

A distant cottage that can be rented surrounded by such beautiful scenery

Bird hide overlooking Langebarn Lagoon

Spurfowl seeing off an African Grey Mongoose

A very distant Orange-throated Longclaw

Ostrich !

White-throated Swallow

and a Black Harrier. These birds are so stunning they deserve a post of their own and yes, it was our bird of the trip !