Day Eight: The Birds of Okonjima

Here are a few of our bird shots - the accommodation at Okonjima consists of rondavels, self-contained African round houses with thatched roofs - you have three, four, or five floor to ceiling windows that open out to the bush. To attract the local bird population, the lodge supplies bird seed! You can sit in a deckchair in the lounge and watch the birds come to you. Natalie and I went on a two hour self-guided walk and saw a dead warthog and one go away bird. Only. We came back to the hut and within five minutes had 23 guinea fowl, a crimson breasted shrike, spurfowl, and many of the birds you see on this page. It's a cornucopia for birders. Here are a few of the birds we have seen at Okonjima.

Swallowtail Bee eater

Swallowtail Bee eater

Short-toed Rock Thrush

Red eyed Bulbul

Montero's Hornbill

Helmeted Guinea Fowl

Laughing Dove

Crimson breasted Shrike

Scaly feathered finch

Scaly feathered finches

Violet-eared Waxbill

Grey-headed Sparrow

Grey-backed Cameroptera

Southern Masked Weaver taking a bath

Southern Masked Weaver