Birdwatching
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Keep your eyes peeled! We have a great variety of bird life to enjoy here in the valley from the moment you come through the gate - whether you are driving in along our driveway, on a walk around the garden or around our picturesque water dams or from the comfort of your own patio. So don’t forget your binoculars!
Birds seen/heard in and around the garden:
- Buff Spotted Flufftail
- Cape Bulbul
- African Dusky Flycatcher
- African Paradise Flycatcher
- Fiscal Flycatcher
- Bar-throated Apalis
- Fairy Flycatcher
- Black-Headed Heron
- Purple Heron
- Grey Heron
- Yellow Billed Duck
- Moorhens
- Mallard
- African Purple Swamphen
- White Breasted Cormorant
- Cape Cormorant
- African Black Swift
- Olive Pigeon
- Cape Turtle-Dove
- Laughing Dove
- Egyptian Goose
- Cape White Eye
- Black Saw-Wing Swallow
- Greater Striped Swallow
- African Black Swift
- White-rumped Swift
- African Fish Eagle
- African Harrier Hawk (Gymnogene)
- Forest Buzzard
- Common Fiscal Shrike
- Black-headed Oriole
- Cape Weaver
- Knysna Turaco (Loerie)
- Knysna Woodpecker
- Burchell's Coucal
- Hamerkop
- Speckled Mousebird
- Southern Grey-Headed Sparrow
- Olive Thrush
- Nightjar Fiery- Necked
- Cape Sugarbird
- Greater Double-Collared Sunbird
- Amethyst Sunbird
- Collared Sunbird
- Southern Double Collared Sunbird
- Orange Breasted Sunbird
- Cape Glossy Starling
- Red-winged Starling
- African Turtle Dove
- Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
- Spur-Winged Goose (flew over)
- Hadeda
- African Sacred Ibis
- Fork-tailed Drongo
- African Darter
- African Hoopoe
- Green Wood-Hoopoe
- Spotted Eagle Owl
- African Wood-Owl
- Giant Kingfisher
- Brown Hooded Kingfisher
- Malachite Kingfisher
- Pied Kingfisher
- Pintailed Whydah
- Red Bishop
- Longcrested Eagle
- Sombre Greenbul
- Black Cuckoo
- Common Cuckoo
- African Emerald Cuckoo
- Red-Chested Cuckoo
- Swee Waxbill
- Cape Wagtail
- Cape Batis
- Southern Tchagra
- Southern Boubou
- Cape Robin Chat
- Grey Cuckooshrike
- White-necked Raven
Birding Hot-Spots in and surrounding Plettenberg Bay:
- Nature's Valley
- Keurbooms River Estuary
- Bitou River Wetlands
- Big Tree Trail
- Uplands
- Harkerville Forest
- Kranshoek Viewpoint - picnic and lookout area
- Leisure Isle
- Wilderness for the Touw River Trails, Langvlei and Rondevlei Lakes
Visit The Plettenberg Bay Birding Routes:
For an understanding of Birding in the Western Cape and along the Garden Route visit www.westerncapebirding.co.za/garden/routes.php
