| 25 July 2010 | ||
| Milnerton Sewage Works | ||
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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. |
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| Hartlaub's Gull | Helmeted Guineafowl | male Pied Kingfisher |
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| Southern Pochards | Levaillant's Cisticola | Little Rush Warbler |
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| Cape Canary | female Common Fiscal | Burchell's Coucal |
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| 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 | |