| 18 October 2008 | ||
| Milnerton Sewage Works | ||
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Margaret and I visited Milnerton Sewage Works early this morning to see what was about. We have been regularly checking this site in the hope that we will eventually find something good here, but have still not had any luck. However, all the regular species were encountered and highlight of the morning was a pair of Banded Martins which are uncommon in this area as well as the continued presence of a single female Wood Duck, no doubt an escapee from somewhere. |
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| Pied Kingfisher | male Cape Canary | male Southern Pochard |
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| Blacksmith Lapwing | female Cape Weaver | Grey Heron |
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| Yellow-billed Duck | Banded Martin | Hartlaub's Gull |
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| Sacred Ibis | Greater Striped Swallow | Egyptian Goose |
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| Red-billed Teal | Little Egret | Hadeda Ibis |
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| Water Thick-knee | female Wood Duck | Cape Teal |
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| Glossy Ibis | male Southern Masked Weaver | immature Black-crowned Night Heron |
| Full list of species recorded at Milnerton Sewage Works | ||
| Common Name | Scientific Name | Additional notes |
| Birds - 65 species | ||
| Cape Spurfowl | Pternistis capensis | |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | Numida meleagris | |
| Egyptian Goose | Alopochen aegyptiaca | |
| Wood Duck | Aix sponsa | probable escapee |
| Cape Teal | Anas capensis | |
| Yellow-billed Duck | Anas undulata | |
| Cape Shoveler | Anas smithii | |
| Red-billed Teal | Anas erythrorhyncha | |
| Southern Pochard | Netta erythrophthalma | |
| Malachite Kingfisher | Alcedo cristata | |
| Pied Kingfisher | Ceryle rudis | |
| Diderick Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx caprius | |
| Rock Dove | Columba livia | |
| Speckled Pigeon | Columba guinea | |
| Laughing Dove | Streptopelia senegalensis | |
| Red-eyed Dove | Streptopelia semitorquata | |
| Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Red-knobbed Coot | Fulica cristata | |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Water Thick-knee | Burhinus vermiculatus | |
| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
| Three-banded Plover | Charadrius tricollaris | |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | Vanellus armatus | |
| Grey-headed Gull | Larus cirrocephalus | |
| Hartlaub's Gull | Larus hartlaubii | |
| Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
| African Darter | Anhinga rufa | |
| Reed Cormorant | Phalacrocorax africanus | |
| White-breasted Cormorant | Phalacrocorax lucidus | |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
| Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| Black-headed Heron | Ardea melanocephala | |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | |
| Hadeda Ibis | Bostrychia hagedash | |
| African Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus | |
| African Spoonbill | Platalea alba | |
| Great White Pelican | Pelecanus onocrotalus | |
| Pied Crow | Corvus albus | |
| Common Fiscal | Lanius collaris | |
| Brown-throated Martin | Riparia paludicola | |
| Banded Martin | Riparia cincta | |
| White-throated Swallow | Hirundo albigularis | |
| Greater Striped Swallow | Hirundo cucullata | |
| Cape Bulbul | Pycnonotus capensis | |
| Little Rush Warbler | Bradypterus baboecala | |
| African Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus baeticatus | |
| Lesser Swamp Warbler | Acrocephalus gracilirostris | |
| Cape White-eye | Zosterops capensis | |
| Le Vaillant's Cisticola | Cisticola tinniens | |
| Karoo Prinia | Prinia maculosa | |
| Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |
| Cape Weaver | Ploceus capensis | |
| Southern Masked Weaver | Ploceus velatus | |
| Southern Red Bishop | Euplectes orix | |
| Yellow Bishop | Euplectes capensis | |
| Common Waxbill | Estrilda astrild | |
| Pin-tailed Whydah | Vidua macroura | |
| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | |
| Cape Sparrow | Passer melanurus | |
| Cape Wagtail | Motacilla capensis | |
| Cape Canary | Serinus canicollis | |
| Yellow Canary | Serinus flaviventris | |