Southern Sightings
Winter is generally a quiet time for rarities and the number of records at this time of year is invariably
much reduced. This year, however, even a quiet time produced top-class birds that got twitchers’
adrenalin flowing. As always, none of the records included here have been adjudicated by any of the
subregion’s Rarities Committees.
Here comes the sun!
Spring is a mood booster; spirits
are lifted with warmer weather, and
the loud ‘kruuk-kruuk’ call along
major southern African river systems
announces the arrival of thousands
of brilliantly coloured Southern
Carmine Bee-eaters.