St Lucia Birding Tours - Ian Ferreira

St Lucia Birding Tours - Ian Ferreira All tours guided by your passionate and experienced birding specialist guide - Ian Ferreira.
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Whether you are a twitcher hoping to add new bird species to your list, a photographer hoping to get excellent photo's of birds or would simply like to revel in their beauty and learn more about birds, the birding excursions will be tailored to suit your birding goals.

Some great forest birding in St Lucia as always. Thanks for the fantastic pictures Ruan Minnaar!
02/02/2025

Some great forest birding in St Lucia as always. Thanks for the fantastic pictures Ruan Minnaar!

Great to see African skimmer at the Lake St Lucia mouth this afternoon. 3rd consecutive summer they have returned. Also ...
01/02/2025

Great to see African skimmer at the Lake St Lucia mouth this afternoon. 3rd consecutive summer they have returned. Also Greater & Tibetan sand plover, Sand martin, Lesser crested tern, Southern brown-throated weaver, Little tern, Common tern, Greater crested tern, African reed warbler, Common ringed plover, Grey plover, Curlew sandpiper, Sanderling to name a few.

Some birds photographed at the St Lucia estuary mouth yesterday afternoon: Grey plover, Curlew sandpiper, Eurasian whimb...
31/01/2025

Some birds photographed at the St Lucia estuary mouth yesterday afternoon: Grey plover, Curlew sandpiper, Eurasian whimbrel, Sanderling, Yellow-billed stork. Also seen: Greater & Tibetan sand plover!

30/01/2025

A nice push of ocean water into the Lake St Lucia estuary this afternoon thanks to Spring high tide and large cyclone swell.

Some birds photographed on this morning's walk in St Lucia: Black-throated wattle-eye, Green malkoha, Livingstone's tura...
30/01/2025

Some birds photographed on this morning's walk in St Lucia: Black-throated wattle-eye, Green malkoha, Livingstone's turaco, Square-tailed drongo, Dark-backed weaver, Klaas' cuckoo, Eastern golden weaver.

27/01/2025

Great sighting of a male Buff-spotted flufftail yesterday afternoon in St Lucia.

A couple of birds photographed off the most recent forest walk: Green malkoha, Rudd's apalis, Livingstone's turaco, Tamb...
26/01/2025

A couple of birds photographed off the most recent forest walk: Green malkoha, Rudd's apalis, Livingstone's turaco, Tambourine dove. Also seen: Woodward's batis, Blue-mantled crested flycatcher, Narina trogon, Purple-banded sunbird, Grey sunbird, Eastern olive sunbird, Dark-backed weaver, Square-tailed drongo, Trumpeter hornbill, Crowned hornbill, Terrestrial brownbul, Sombre greenbul, Yellow-bellied greenbul, Crested guineafowl, Violet-backed starling, Black-bellied starling, Klaas' cuckoo, Yellow-rumped tinkerbird, White-eared barbet, Eastern golden weaver, Thick-billed weaver, Red-capped robin-chat, Green-backed camaroptera to name a few.

Nice sighting of Buff-spotted flufftail on yesterday afternoon's walk in St Lucia.
24/01/2025

Nice sighting of Buff-spotted flufftail on yesterday afternoon's walk in St Lucia.

Some birds photographed on recent bird walks in St Lucia: Narina trogon, Livingstone's turaco, Woodward's batis, Yellow-...
23/01/2025

Some birds photographed on recent bird walks in St Lucia: Narina trogon, Livingstone's turaco, Woodward's batis, Yellow-rumped tinkerbird, Southern-banded snake-eagle, Brown scrub-robin.

Special sighting of a Male Narina trogon and it's 2 fledgling chicks this morning in St Lucia.
18/01/2025

Special sighting of a Male Narina trogon and it's 2 fledgling chicks this morning in St Lucia.

Some birds seen and photographed on a recent morning forest walk: Narina trogon, Purple-banded sunbird, Terrestrial brow...
15/01/2025

Some birds seen and photographed on a recent morning forest walk: Narina trogon, Purple-banded sunbird, Terrestrial brownbul, White-eared barbet, Livingstone's turaco, Collared sunbird. Thanks for the pictures Susan Roos!

A few birds photographed on recent bird walks in St Lucia: African goshawk, Southern-banded snake-eagle, Woodward's bati...
14/01/2025

A few birds photographed on recent bird walks in St Lucia: African goshawk, Southern-banded snake-eagle, Woodward's batis, White-eared barbet.

The beaches surrounding the Lake St Lucia estuary mouth are littered with decaying barbel (washed into the ocean after t...
13/01/2025

The beaches surrounding the Lake St Lucia estuary mouth are littered with decaying barbel (washed into the ocean after the breach of the mouth and strong outgoing current). Way too many for the beach scavenging gulls, Wooly-necked storks, Yellow-billed kites, Grey heron, Yellow-billed storks and Palm-nut vultures to dispose of. The estuary mouth is deep and wide with a strong outflow of water into the ocean. Good number of terns again with Lesser crested, Greater crested, Common, Little, Sandwich and Caspian all present this morning.

After a rainy start to the day, thisLivingstone's turaco emerged to dry in the first bit of sunshine exposing it's beaut...
13/01/2025

After a rainy start to the day, thisLivingstone's turaco emerged to dry in the first bit of sunshine exposing it's beautiful crimson primary flight feathers.

24hrs after the breach of the Lake St Lucia estuary and the mouth is approximately 100m wide. Lots of bird activity with...
11/01/2025

24hrs after the breach of the Lake St Lucia estuary and the mouth is approximately 100m wide. Lots of bird activity with Yellow-billed stork, herons and Egrets gathering to take advantage of the fish feast. Thousands of barbel and the odd Tilapia washing up on the beaches after being swept out of the Lake and river with the strong current and being exposed to the ocean water. Many people gathering to take advantage of the easy catch too. Nice tern roost consisting of Lesser crested, Greater crested, Common, Sandwich and Caspian tern. Waders included Grey plover, Curlew, Marsh & Common sandpiper, White-fronted plover, Eurasian whimbrel, Common-ringed plover and Common greenshank.

The Rising water levels in the Lake St Lucia estuary have flooded a few areas in St Lucia and also quite sadly risen to ...
10/01/2025

The Rising water levels in the Lake St Lucia estuary have flooded a few areas in St Lucia and also quite sadly risen to drown many of the Southern brown-throated, Eastern golden and Thick-billed weaver nests- with Barbel coming to clean out the nests.

10/01/2025

The Lake St Lucia estuary mouth a couple of minutes after it finally breached to the ocean

The Lake St Lucia estuary mouth re-opened to the ocean at 10am this morning due to high rainfall in catchment areas duri...
10/01/2025

The Lake St Lucia estuary mouth re-opened to the ocean at 10am this morning due to high rainfall in catchment areas during the past week and rising water levels in the lake. Within 30 minutes of the breach already 3 Bull sharks hunting in the shallows! Tern roost at the mouth consisted of Greater crested, Sandwich, Common and Little terns.

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A nice push of ocean water into the Lake St Lucia estuary this afternoon thanks to Spring high tide and large cyclone swell.

Buff-spotted flufftail, St Lucia Birding Tours
Buff-spotted flufftail, St Lucia Birding Tours

Great sighting of a male Buff-spotted flufftail yesterday afternoon in St Lucia.

The Lake St Lucia estuary mouth a couple of minutes after it finally breached to the ocean

For those wondering about the current state of the Lake St Lucia estuary mouth: It is closed from the ocean on the low tide but on the Spring high tide ocean water still pushes in. With the large storm swell of the past few days large volumes of ocean water pushing in flattening reedbeds towards the ski boat club.

Rufous-bellied heron, St Lucia
Rufous-bellied heron, St Lucia

Beautiful views of the Rufous-bellied heron this morning!

Narina trogon in St Lucia
Narina trogon in St Lucia

Narina trogon on this morning's walk.

The naughty Isimangaliso elephants have been making a nuisance of themselves ripping out sign posts, destroying thatch roofs and making a mess of the road the last couple of days.

Spotted ground-thrush, St Lucia
Spotted ground-thrush, St Lucia

Great sighting of Spotted ground-thrush on this morning's bird walk. Special Winter visitors to the forests surrounding St Lucia where they can be found scratching through leaf litter on the forest floor.

St Lucia estuary mouth on the high tide this afternoon. Nice flow of crystal clean ocean water pushing up the mouth.

Incredible sighting of a leopard on the outskirts of St Lucia this evening. What a special place!

Lake St Lucia estuary mouth on the neap high tide this morning with crystal clean ocean water pushing in.

The Lake St Lucia estuary this afternoon on the high tide. Large, powerful swell pushing alot of water up the mouth and into the Lake and Umfolozi river channel. Large swell is also pushing the bank opposite the mouth inwards narrowing the mouth considerably. The channel only 10m across but still deep. With large swell predicted for the upcoming week the mouth will do well to stay open. Will have to wait and see.

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