The plan is to resee my list and yesterday I passed the halfway mark and saw a lifer at the Nkuhlu picnic stop, the Icterine Warbler. It was a good day for raptors and we added Tawny Eagle and Brown Snake Eagle to the list. I must admit to filing to identify many of the juveniles though. I realise that I am noticing birds that I have paid no attention to seeing for many a year, like the Village Indigobird which I also found at Nkuhlu. The rain lifted and we had gentle sunlight on the grassy plains. The road from Sukuza to Lower Sabie is overgrown which makes viewing almost impossible but we did see Elephant and Buffalo in the Sabie River. I am enjoying the Phabeni road at the moment and we are seeing herds of Zebra, Wildebeest and Buffalo.
We held our breath waiting for the Red-billed Oxpecker each time we saw Giraffe, then eventually found oodles of them.
Sunset Dam at Lower Sabie was not as productive for birds as had I expected, but we did sit and watch a Goliath Heron moving imperceptively in the water waiting to fish.
The Wire-tailed Swallow watching us put in petrol at Lower Sabie.
