I was flicking back through my journal and thought I really do have quite a list here, and it’s all jumbled up. So here it is, all the birds, animals and tracks that I’ve seen while I was off.
Venetia and Mapungubwe
1 Arrow-marked Babbler
2 Blue Cheeked Bee-eater
3 European Bee-eater
4 Little Bee-eater
5 White fronted Bee-eater
6 Black eyed Bulbul
7 Cape Bunting
8 Golden breasted Bunting
9 Lark-like Bunting
10 Kori Bustard
11 Steppe Buzzard
12 Yellow Canary
13 Reed Comorant
14 White breasted Comorant
15 Diderick Cuckoo (call)
16 Great spotted Cuckoo
17 Jacobin Cuckoo
18 Red-chested Cuckoo
19 African Mourning Dove
20 Cape Turtle Dove
21 Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
22 Laughing Dove
23 Namaqua Dove
24 Fork-tailed Drongo
25 White-faced Duck
26 African Fish Eagle
27 African Hawk Eagle
28 j Long-crested Eagle
29 Tawny Eagle
30 Black Eagle
31 Cattle Egret
32 Great Egret
33 African Paradise Flycatcher
34 Marico Flycatcher
35 Crested Francolin
36 Grey Lourie (go away bird)
37 Egyptian Goose
38 Southern pale Goshwak
39 Little Grebe
40 Helemeted Guineafowl
41 White-crested Helmet-shrike
42 Black headed Heron
43 African Hoopoe
44 African Grey Hornbill
45 Red-billed Hornbill
46 Southern Ground Hornbill
47 Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
48 Hadeda Ibis
49 African Jacana
50 Greater Kestrel
51 Brown hooded Kingfisher
52 Grey-headed Kingfisher
53 Pied Kingfisher
54 Northern Black Korhaan (call)
55 Red-crested Korhaan
56 Blacksmith Plover
57 Crowned Plover
58 Monotonous Lark
59 Common House Martin
60 Speckled Mousebird
61 Fiery-necked Nightjar (call)
62 Freckled Nightjar (call)
63 Black-headed Oriole
64 Ostrich
65 African Scops Owl (call)
66 Spotted Eagle Owl
67 African Green Pidgeon
68 Three-banded Plover
69 Black-backed Puffback
70 Red-billed Quelea (call)
71 European Roller
72 Magpie
73 Black-chested Snake-eagle
74 Brown Snake-eagle
75 Great Sparrow
76 House Sparrow
77 Southern grey-headed Sparrow
78 Natal Spurfowl
79 Swainson’s Spurfowl
80 Cape Glossy Starling
81 Greater Blue-eared Starling
82 Long-tailed Starling
83 Red-winged Starling
84 Violet-backed Starling
85 Wattled Starling
86 Black-winged Stilt
87 Black stork
88 Marabou Stork
89 Saddle-billed Stork
90 White Stork
91 Yellow-billed Stork
92 Barn Swallow (European?)
93 White-rumped Swallow
94 Black Sunbird
95 White-backed Vulture
96 Blue Waxbill
97 Lesser Masked Weaver
98 Masked Weaver
99 Red-billed Buffalo Weaver
100 Red-headed Weaver
101 Long-tailed Paradise Whydah
102 Scimitar-billed Wood-Hoopoe
103 Red-billed Wood-Hoopoe
Animals and Other
1 Kudu
2 Elephant
3 Scrub hare
4 terrapin
5 Banded mongoose
6 Blue wildebeest
7 Impala
8 Gemsbok
9 Giraffe
10 Baboons
11 red hartebeest
12 Zebra
13 Klipspringer
14 Tree squirrel
15 Crocodile
16 Black mamba
17 3 types lizard
18 Striped sand snake
19 Warthog
20 Vervet monkey
21 African Hawk moth
22 Fireflies
23 Black backed jackal
24 Brown hyena
25 Leopard tortoise
26 African spitting cobra (almost)
27 Small spotted genet
28 wild dogs
29 Tree frog
30 Waterbuck
31 Eland
32 Hippo
33 Steenbok
34 Bat-eared fox
35 Grey duiker
36 Elephant shrew
37 Sand agama
38 Tree agama
39 Lion
Tracks
1 Lion
2 Brown hyena
3 Porcupine
4 Civet
5 Kudu
6 Impala
7 Giraffe
8 Baby scorpion
9 Gemsbok
10 White rhino and baby
11 Wildebeest/Hartebeest
12 Millipede
13 Mouse
14 Hippo
15 Dung beetle
16 Talkitalki beetle
17 Zebra
18 Bushpig/Warthog
Ellie's Energetic Epistle 