Our rooms in the shed were quite lovely.

This shed had 3 rooms in it.

dining area

Bedroom area. In front of this are twin beds on one side and a couch and living area on the other.  There is also a kitchen in the back.

and of course, a bathroom.

We started our day in the main reception area with a lovely breakfast.

Everything was done in such a lovely way with a lot of attention to detail like this dragonfly napkin ring and beaded hot pad for holding your warmed plate.

After breakfast we were birding around the farm and found this beautiful bird

Bokmakierie

Today we had a local guide, Lucky, join us. It was a cold, windy and foggy day.  Our first stop was the wetlands just down the road.

Yellow-billed Duck

White-throated Swallow

Wooly-necked Stork

From there we went up to some mountainous areas and some open fields.

We were looking for endemics and found all but 1 of our target birds.  One special bird was the Dark-capped Yellow Warbler which we heard up the side of a hill but he was so far away some of us couldn’t really see him well. Greg was playing call back to get him closer and we were about to give up when Denny turned around and said “what is that bird in the road behind us?  It was the Warbler!

Dark-capped Yellow Warbler

This Fire Lily was nearby.