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This is the first of the pages of photos of the birds. This page deals with Nov 9th & 10th only.

The first new bird was before we even reached Africa. It was abhu Dhabi airport when we found this bird inside the terminal late at night. This bird was still there three weeks later when we returned back home. It was a White-cheeked Bulbul.

White-cheeked Bulbul.

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On the way to Stranfontein we came across the following at the side of main roads in built up areas.

Black-headed Heron & Sacred Ibis

Hadedah & Glossy Ibis

Avocet & White Pelican

Cape Teal & Speckled Pigeon

White-breasted Cormorant

Levaillant's Cisticola & Kelp Gull

Cattle Egret & Common Waxbill

Greater Flamingo

Nov 10th.

The day of the Pelagic. Unfortunately the weather turned out to be very windy and the photo opportunities diminished with the badly bucking boat. I missed a lot of birds both seen and photographed but these are a few I did manage.

White-chinned & Pintado Petrel

Shy Albatross

Shy Albatross again.

Yellow-nosed Albatross.

Black-browed Albatross.

That's it from the Pelagic. Upon our return to Simonstown we were greeted by quite a few Hautlab's Gull on the key side.

Hautlab's Gull

As we were back with plenty of time to spare (albeit it extremely windy conditions) it was decided to go to the Boulders Beach reserve for a close up of the African Penguins (which we had seen from the boat on the way out to sea). A few photos from that reserve.

African Penguin

African Penguin chick.

Cape Wagtail & Black Oystercatcher

Red-winged Starling.

Female Lesser Double-crested Sunbird

That's it for those two days.