As we are gliding fast into the african summer and the migrators return. I would like to open this topic to collect the dates of the 'firsts'. With this I do not mean when they were seen first on the cam, but when they return from their migration.

When did we hear the woodland kingfisher sing first this season?

When did we see the first impala baby, or wildebeest, or a bird's egg?

Yesterday I saw an egg on the flamingo cam.

Will you post it here when you hear a first song or see something that indicates summer's arrival.

Thanks

Cerinthe

09-10-2008 : Redbreasted swallow  (NK)

10-17-2008 : First egg seen on cam on a flamingo's nest  (Flamcam)

10-18-2008 : Redchested cuckoo (aud.)  (EP)

11-01-2008 : Yellow-billed kite (NK)

11-03-2008 : First egg seen on cam on a greyheaded gull's nest (Flamcam)

11-03-2008 : Common sandpiper (NK)

11-10-2008 : Serrated hinged terrapins (EP)

11-10-2008 : Diederik Cuckoo (aud) (NK)

11-10-2008 : Steppe Buzzard (EP)

11-11-2008 : Klaas's Cuckoo (aud) (NK)

11-11-2008 : Black Cuckoo (aud) (EP)

11-12-2008 : Wildebeest baby (NK) (A lion caught it during birth)

11-13-2008 : Woodland Kingfisher (aud) (EP & NK)

11-13-2008 : Jacobin Cuckoo (aud)

11-14-2008 : Wildebeest baby (NK) (not seen on cam, info from game drive)

11-15-2008 : Cicadas singing (die sonbesies sing)

11-15-2008 : Impala baby (NK) (not seen on cam, info from game drive)

11-16-2008 : Lesser striped swallow (NK) (gathering mud)

11-16-2008 : African Cuckoo (aud) (NK)

11-21-2008 : Wildebeest baby (NK's wildies) (Pic Karin)

11-23-2008 : Impala baby on cam (NK)

11-23-2008 : Wildebeest baby on cam (NK)

12-09-2008 : Buffalo calf (EP)

Year round breeders

• chacma baboon
• cheetah
• giraffe
• hippo
• leopard
• lion
• rhino
• serval
• zebra

Resident birds

• Babbler, Arrowmarked
• Barbet, Blackcollared, Crested
• Bataleur
• Bunting, Goldenbreasted
• Bush-Shrike, Greyheaded, Orange-Breasted
• Cougal, Burchell's
• Crow, Pied
• Dove, Cape Turtle, Emerald-spotted Wood, Laughing
• Drongo, Forktailed
• Duck, African Black
• Eagle, African Fish, Brown Snake
• Egret, Cattle, Great
• Francolin, Crested
• Grey go-away Bird
• Guineafowl, Helmeted
• Hamerkop
• Heron, Black-crowned Night, Black-headed, Grey
• Hoopoe, African
• Hornbill, Ground, Redbilled, Yellowbilled
• Ibis, Hadeda
• Kingfisher, Brown-hooded
• Lapwing, Blacksmith, Crowned
• Lourie, Purplecrested
• Owl, Barn
• Parrot, Brown-headed
• Pigeon, African Green
• Plover, Threebanded
• Roller, Lilacbreasted
• Sandgrouse, Double Banded
• Spoonbill, African
• Starling, Burchell's, Glossy, Greater Blue-eared
• Tchagra, Blackcrowned
• Waxbill, Blue
• Woodhoopoe, Green
• Woodpecker, Bennett's, Goldentailed