Flora and Fauna
Bird Watching
… more than 80 bird species have been spotted on our farm and surroundings!
Fauna
… some of the wild animals, reptiles and creatures that can be spotted on the mountains and hills around us!
Flora
… here are only some of the miriad of flowers and plants that can be spotted on the farm and surrounding mountains and hills!
Birds spotted on the Farm by Cape Bird Club and others:
Come and find the unchecked ones!
| Apalis, Bar Throated | |
| Barbet, Acacia Pied | X |
| Batis, Cape | X |
| Batis, Pririt | |
| Bishop, Southern Red | X |
| Bokmakierie | X |
| Boubou, Southern | X |
| Bulbul, Cape | X |
| Bunting, Cape | X |
| Bunting, Lark Like | |
| Buzzard, Jackal | |
| Canary, Black-headed | |
| Canary, Cape | X |
| Canary, White throated | X |
| Canary, Yellow | |
| Chat, familiar | X |
| Chat, Karoo | |
| Chat, Sickle winged | X |
| Cisticola, Grey backed | |
| Cisticola, Levaillants | X |
| Coot, Red knobbed | X |
| Cormorant, Reed | |
| Crow, Cape | |
| Crow, Pied | X |
| Cuckoo, Klaas’s | X |
| Dove, Cape Turtle | X |
| Dove, Laughing | X |
| Dove, Red eyed | X |
| Dove, Rock | |
| Drongo, Fork tailed | X |
| Duck, Yellow billed | X |
| Eagle, Booted | X |
| Eagle, Verreauxs’ | X |
| Egret, Cattle | |
| Eremomela, Karoo | |
| Falcon, Peregrine | |
| Flycatcher, Fairy | X |
| Flycatcher, Fiscal | X |
| Goose, Egyptian | X |
| Goose, Spurwinged | |
| Goshawk, S. Pale Chanting | |
| Grebe, Little | |
| Greenbul, Sombre | X |
| Guineafowl, Helmeted | X |
| Heron, Black headed | |
| Hoopoe, African | X |
| Ibis, African Sacred | X |
| Ibis, Hadeda | X |
| Kestrel, Rock | X |
| Kingfisher, Giant | X |
| Lapwind, Blacksmith | |
| Lapwing, Crowned | |
| Martin, Rock | X |
| Mousebird, Speckled | X |
| Mousebird, White backed | X |
| Neddicky | X |
| Nightjar, Fiery necked | X |
| Pigeon. Speckled | X |
| Pipit African | |
| Plover, Three banded | X |
| Prinia, Karoo | X |
| Quail, common | |
| Quelea, Red billed | |
| Raven, White necked | X |
| Robin, Karoo Scrub | X |
| Robin chat, Cape | X |
| Rock Thrush, Cape | X |
| Seedeater, Protea | |
| Seedeater, Streaky headed | X |
| Shelduck , South African | |
| Shoveler, Cape | |
| Shrike, Common Fiscal | X |
| Siskin, Cape | X |
| Sparrow, Cape | X |
| Sparrow, House | X |
| Sparrow, S. Grey Headed | X |
| Sparrowhawk, Black | X |
| Sparrowhawk, Rufous chested | |
| Spoonbill, African | X |
| Spurfowl, Cape | X |
| Starling, Common | X |
| Starling, Pale winged | |
| Starling, Pied | X |
| Starling, Red Winged | X |
| Stonechat, African | |
| Sugarbird, Cape | |
| Sunbird, Malachite | X |
| Sunbird, Orange breasted | X |
| Sunbird, Southern Double coll | X |
| Swallow, Greater striped | X |
| Swallow, Pearl breasted | X |
| Swallow, Whilte throated | |
| Swift, Alpine | X |
| Swift, Little | X |
| Swift, White rumped | X |
| Teal, Red billed | |
| Thrush, Karoo | |
| Tit-Babbler, Chestnut vented | X |
| Tit-Babbler, Layard’s | |
| Wagtail, Cape | X |
| Warbler, African Reed | |
| Warbler, Lesser Swamp | |
| Warbler, Namaqua | |
| Warbler, Rufous eared | |
| Warbler, Victorin’s | |
| Waxbill, Common | X |
| Weaver, Cape | X |
| Weaver, Southern Masked | X |
| White-eye, Cape | X |
| Whydah, Pin tailed |
Birds spotted on the Farm 2021…
…by Dominic Tuffin and with the kind assistance of Lynette Boshoff of The Birding Life
| Species primary name | Species tertiary name |
| African Stonechat | Saxicola torquatus |
| Bar-throated Apalis | Apalis thoracica |
| Black Crake | Amaurornis flavirostra |
| Black-headed Canary | Serinus alario |
| Black-headed Heron | Ardea melanocephala |
| Bokmakierie | Telophorus zeylonus |
| Booted Eagle | Hieraaetus pennatus |
| Cape Bulbul | Pycnonotus capensis |
| Cape Bunting | Emberiza capensis |
| Cape Canary | Serinus canicollis |
| Cape Robin-Chat | Cossypha caffra |
| Cape Rock Thrush | Monticola rupestris |
| Cape Sparrow | Passer melanurus |
| Cape Spurfowl | Pternistis capensis |
| Cape Wagtail | Motacilla capensis |
| Cape White-eye | Zosterops virens |
| Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus |
| Egyptian Goose | Alopochen aegyptiaca |
| Familiar Chat | Oenanthe familiaris |
| Fiery-necked Nightjar | Caprimulgus pectoralis |
| Fork-tailed Drongo | Dicrurus adsimilis |
| Giant Kingfisher | Megaceryle maxima |
| Hadada Ibis | Bostrychia hagedash |
| Karoo Scrub Robin | Cercotrichas coryphoeus |
| Levaillant’s Cisticola | Cisticola tinniens |
| Little Rush Warbler | Bradypterus baboecala |
| Malachite Sunbird | Nectarinia famosa |
| Neddicky | Cisticola fulvicapilla |
| Pale Chanting Goshawk | Melierax canorus |
| Pied Starling | Lamprotornis bicolor |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea |
| Red-billed Quelea | Quelea quelea |
| Red-knobbed Coot | Fulica cristata |
| Ring-necked Dove | Streptopelia capicola |
| Rock Kestrel | Falco rupicolus |
| Rock Martin | Ptyonoprogne fuligula |
| Sombre Greenbul | Andropadus importunus |
| Southern Double-collared Sunbird | Cinnyris chalybeus |
| Southern Fiscal | Lanius collaris |
| Southern Masked Weaver | Ploceus velatus |
| Southern Red Bishop | Euplectes orix |
| Speckled Mousebird | Colius striatus |
| Speckled Pigeon | Columba guinea |
| Spotted Eagle-Owl | Bubo africanus |
| Streaky-headed Seedeater | Crithagra gularis |
| White-backed Mousebird | Colius colius |
| White-throated Canary | Crithagra albogularis |
| Yellow-billed Duck | Anas undulata |