This year’s ever-popular Uganda tour started a little earlier than normal, as a few of us decided to fly in ahead of the start of the main tour and do some extra birding, as well as giving ourselves a bit of a chance to recover and rest from the flight. Well, there wasn’t much recovery this evening as when we eventually left the airport formalities behind us and were being transferred to our guest house on the outskirts of Entebbe, our list started with Northern Fiscal, African Openbill and a Hamerkop. Once we had our rooms sorted out at the guest house we met in the garden around 5pm and had a nice 90 minute session before it became dark during which time we saw Red-billed Firefinch, White-browed Robin-Chat, African Green-Pigeon, a few Eastern Plantain Eaters and several Red-chested Sunbirds. A pair of African Wood Owls really stole the show as we watched them being mobbed by numerous birds and were instantly praised as our ‘Bird of the Day’, although a pair of African Hobbies graced the skies above, a Meyer’s Parrot called from on top of a telegraph post and a superb African Grey Parrot flew in to a tree right in front of us, in my opinion vied with the owls for bird of the day.
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