I haven't had the time or the opportunity to do too much birding yet but with a 4 week stay I am going to have plenty of opportunity. Yesterday we travelled to the lovely town of Stellenbosch and visited the peaceful Botanical gardens which were strangely devoid of even one single bird! In fact for our entire 3 hours in the town I didn't see or hear even one either. I have no theory for this. The gardens were nice and I photographed a young Cape skink (Trachylepis capensis) which was feeding on ants. I also saw and photographed 2 different dragonflies, one I have been able to put a name to. On our drive from Stellenbosch to the airport I had many sightings of interesting birds, Cape Francolin, Helmeted Guinea Fowl, Sacred Ibis, African Spoonbill and Yellow- billed Kite being the highlights but only tantalising glimpses from the car. from the balcony of the apartment here, although we have only one tree which is large but grows from the adjoining property, my garden list is growing. We have had Cape White-eye, Double-barred Sunbird, Cape Bulbul, Red-winged Starling with "fly-bys" including Fiscal Shrike, Little Swift, Barn Swallow, Speckled Pigeon, European Starling as well as Hartlaubs and Kelp Gull, so quite a good list.

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I don't know the name of this Dragonfly (above)  yet but the one below is Urothemis assignata.

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