25 July 2010    
Milnerton Sewage Works    
     

With a little bit of spare time this morning, I quickly shot out to Milnerton Sewage Works to see if I could find any new species for my challenge. There were still a number of really common species that I needed to see and get photos of and, fortunately, I was able to get a few of these. With not having the opportunity to have spent a lot of time in the field so far this year, its amazing how many common species I have yet to connect with! Birdwise, the most exciting find of the morning was a Burchell's Coucal. This is not an uncommon bird in the Cape, but is rather unusual for this area and it has certainly been a while since I have seen one here. I also completed another atlas card for the area, something else which I have not had too much opportunity to do recently.

     
Hartlaub's Gull Helmeted Guineafowl male Pied Kingfisher
     
Southern Pochards Levaillant's Cisticola Little Rush Warbler
     
Cape Canary female Common Fiscal Burchell's Coucal
     
male Southern Masked Weaver Water Thick-knee Hadeda Ibis
     

 

Full list of species recorded at Milnerton Sewage Works
   
Links to pages with additional photos highlighted in red
   
Common Name Scientific Name Additional notes
     
Birds - 50 species    
     
Cape Spurfowl Pternistis capensis  
Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris  
Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca  
Cape Teal Anas capensis  
Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata  
Cape Shoveler Anas smithii  
Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha  
Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma  
Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis  
Burchell's Coucal Centropus burchellii  
Rock Dove Columba livia  
Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea  
Laughing Dove Streptopelia senegalensis  
Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata  
Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus  
Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata  
Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus  
Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus  
Three-banded Plover Charadrius tricollaris  
Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus  
Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus  
Hartlaub's Gull Larus hartlaubii  
Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus  
Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis  
African Darter Anhinga rufa  
Reed Cormorant Phalacrocorax africanus  
White-breasted Cormorant Phalacrocorax lucidus  
Grey Heron Ardea cinerea  
Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala  
Hadeda Ibis Bostrychia hagedash  
African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus  
Pied Crow Corvus albus  
Common Fiscal Lanius collaris  
Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola  
Little Rush Warbler Bradypterus baboecala  
Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris  
Cape White-eye Zosterops capensis  
Levaillant's Cisticola Cisticola tinniens  
Karoo Prinia Prinia maculosa  
Cape Robin-Chat Cossypha caffra  
Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris  
Cape Weaver Ploceus capensis  
Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus  
Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix  
Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild  
House Sparrow Passer domesticus  
Cape Sparrow Passer melanurus  
Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis  
Cape Canary Serinus canicollis  
Yellow Canary Serinus flaviventris  
     
     
Frogs - 1 species    
     
Clicking Stream Frog Strongylopus grayii