During the following days we visited numerous sites on the coastal plain seeing such excellent species as African Darter, Striated Heron, African Spoonbill, Sacred Ibis, Dark-chanting Goshawk, Gabar Goshawk, Shikra, Long-crested Eagle, Lanner Falcon, Red-necked Falcon, Beaudouin’s Eagle, Brown Snake Eagle, Montagu’s Harriers, Tawny Eagle, Wahlberg’s Eagle , Palm-nut Vulture, Yellow-billed Kite, Grasshopper Buzzard, Martial Eagle, Black Crake, African Jacana, Black-crowned Crane, Kelp and Slender-billed Gulls, Gull-billed and Little Terns, Black-billed and Blue-spotted Wood-doves, Namaqua Dove, Senegal Parrot, Senegal Coucal, Verreaux’s and Greyish Eagle-owls, more Northern White-faced Owls, Pearl Spotted Owlet, Mottled Spinetail, African Palm Swift, Pied, Blue-breasted, Giant, Woodland and Striped Kingfishers, African Pygmy-kingfisher, Little, Swallow-tailed and White-throated Bee-eaters, African Pied, African Grey and Red-billed Hornbills, Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Lesser Honeyguide, Cardinal and Grey Woodpeckers, Fanti Sawwing, Pied-winged Swallow, Eurasian, Mosque, Rufous-chested, Red-chested, Red-rumped and Wire-tailed Swallows, Plain-backed Pipit, Grey-backed Camaroptera, Little Greenbul, Yellow-breasted Apalis, African Yellow White-eye, Northern Puffback, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher, Common Wattle-eye, Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-weaver, Heuglin’s Masked, Vitelline Masked and Black-necked Weavers, Black-winged Bishop, Blackcap Babbler, Green and Black Woodhoopoe, and Black-faced Quailfinch. At Abuko we even saw an adult Western Bluebill feeding two recently fledged young which showed reasonably well to the whole group.

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