Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden - a spectacular birdwatching hotspot

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens is one of South Africa's ten NBG , which include the following:

1. Free State Botanical Gardens
2. Harold Porter Botanical Gardens (the 2nd one in the Western Cape).
3. Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens
4. Pietermaritzburg Botanical
5. Pretoria Botanical Garden

The Joy of Garden Birdwatching

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Welcome back to Where the birds at.

When it comes to the activity of bird-watching in the garden, my opinion is that birding in the common garden should not be underestimated - as personally I have encountered quite a surprising diversity of birdlife in my own garden since moving into a new house with a list that includes seed-eaters, nectar feeders and insect-eaters. Even now I am still surprised with some of the birds that I have never seen in the garden before or the birds that have notably been absent from the garden for a certain amount of time.

Some of my most memorable garden sightings include most notably a quite recent and surprising encounter (only yesterday) with the discovery of a quite nonchalant