Peace and Tranquility

 Bird Watching at Acra

 

One of the things which surprises our guest is the amount of birds you are able to see here.

 

Especially in the morning you are able to see a lot of birds.

 

A delight for animal lovers and ornothologists.

 

Here are some photos of birds spotted at Acra Retreat.     Please feel free to send us also some of your pictures.

 

           

African Firefinch (Lagonosticta rubricata)

by Isidro Vila Verde

 

 

Amethyst Sunbird (Chalcomitra amethystina) young male

by Rosa Gamboias

 

 

Bar-throated Apalis (dark form)

by a guest (?)

 

 

Sunbird in our fountain

 

  

           

Black-collared Barbet

by Ana Silva

 

 

Brimstone Canary - Bully Canary

(Serinus sulphuratus - Crithagra sulphurata)

by Isidro Vila Verde

 

 

Brimstone Canary - Bully Canary

(Serinus sulphuratus - Crithagra sulphurata)

by Isidro Vila Verde

 

 

Buff-streaked Chat

(Oenanthe bifasciata - Saxicola bifasciata)

by Rosa Gamboias

 

  

           

Buff-streaked Chat (Oenanthe bifasciata - Saxicola bifasciata)

by Isidro Vila Verde

only found (and posted on flickr) in the Marakele National Park

 

 

Buff-streaked Chat

by Ana Silva

only found (and posted on flickr) in the Marakele National Park

 

 

Cape Rock-Thrush

(Monticola rupestris)

by Isidro Vila Verde

 

 

Cape Weaver

(Ploceus capensis)

by Rosa Gamboias

 

  

       

   

Familiar Chat

(Cercomela Familiaris)

by Isidro Vila Verde

 

Cape White-eye

by guest (?)

 

Chasco-familiar

by Ana Silva 

 

Cinnamon-breasted Bunting -female-

(Emberiza tahapisi) 

by Rosa Gamboias 

  

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

   

 

Fiscal Flycatcher (Singelus silens)

by Isidro Villa Verde

 

fiscal flycatcher

by Ana Silva

 

Fiscal Flycatcher

(Singelus silens)

 

 

 

 

 

 

       

Golden beauty  

by Rosa Gamboias 

 

Greater double-collared sunbird -male-

(Cinnyris afer) 

by Ana Silva

 

Greater double-collared sunbird  -female-

 (Cinnyris afer) 

by Rosa Gamboias

 

 

 

   

 

   

 

Greater Double-collared Sunbird  -male-

(Cinnyris afer)

by Isidro Vila Verde

 

Greater Double-collared Sunbird  -juvenile-

(Cinnyris afer)

by Isidro Vila Verde

 

Greater double-collared sunbird -female-

(Cinnyris afer) 

by Rosa Gamboias

 

 

 

 

 

 

       

Greater Double-collared Sunbird  -juvenile-

(Cinnyris afer)

by Rosa Gamboias

 

Laughing Dove

by Ana Silva

 

Mocking Cliff-Chat -female-

(Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris)

by Ana Silva

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       

Southern Fiscal - Fiscal Shrike

(Lanius collaris)

by Isidro Vila Verde

 

Streaky-headed Seed-eater  (still a canary)

(Crithagra gularis)

by Rosa Gamboias

 

Swallow-tailed Bee-eater

(Merops hirundineus)

bu Marcell Claassen

 

 

 

 

 

       

Swallow-tailed Bee-eater

(Merops hirundineus)

 

Yellow Canary -male-

(Crithagra flaviventris)

by Rosa Gamboias

 

Yellow-Fronted Canary

(serinus mozambicus)

by Isidro Vila Verde

 

 

 

 

 

       

Yellow-Fronted Canary

(serinus mozambicus)

by Isidro Vila Verde

 

Kurrichane Thrush

(Turdus libonyana)

 

 

Lazy Cisticola

(Cisticola aberrans)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       

Groundscraper Thrush

(Psophocichla litsitsirupa)

 

 

Cape Weaver

(Ploceus capensis)

 

 

Cape Rock-Thrush

(Monticola rupestris)

by Isidro Vila Verde

 

 

 

 

       

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Paradise Flycatcher

by David J. Kelly

 

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