Submitted by: Hettie at 2008/09/08 09:29:41 AM

Flip and Hettie Lessing have adopted this municipal sanctuary - the only suburban wetland in Randfontein - and are rehabilitating and developing it with trees, hides and visitor facilities, at their own expense. The reserve contains a small grassland and a large pan with graduated mud banks and many reed beds, somewhat reminiscent of Rolfes Pan in Kempton Park. There is also a large, shaded picnic/braai area, toilets and guarded parking. I predict that it will be very interesting in a few weeks time when the migrant waders arrive. Access is possible anytime, because of the onsite guard, but you can also phone Flip on 082-341-1331 to confirm your visit. The Birds that was seen there by Faansie Peacock is: Helmeted Guineafowl, White-faced Duck, Maccoa Duck, Yellow-billed Duck, Red-billed Teal, Hottentot Teal, Egyptian Goose, Spur-winged Goose, Cape Shoveller, Speckled Pigeon, Cape Turtle-Dove, Red-eyed Dove, African Purple Swamphen, Common Moorhen, Red-knopped Coot, Wood Sandpiper, Spotted Thick-knee, Blacksnith Lapwing, Whiskered Tern, Reed Cormorant, Little Grepe, Little Egret, Yello-billed Egret, Cattle Egret, Grey Heron, Black-headed Heron, Greater Flamingo, Hadeda Ibis African Sacred Ibis, Glossy Ibis, Common Fiscal, White-Swallow, Dark-capped Bulbul, Lesser Swamp-warbler, African Reed Warbler, Levaillants Cisticola, Zitting Cisticola, African Stonechat, Pied Starling, Common Myna, Sourthen Masked-weaver, Southern Red Bishop, Uello-crowned Bishop, Pin-tailed Whydah, Cape Wagtail, African Pipit, Black-throated Canary. The birds that was seen by the Witwatersrand Bird Club are: Cormorant Reed, Heron Grey, Herron Squacco, Ibis Sacred, Ibis Hadeda, Spoonbill African, Kite Black-Shouldered, Swamphen African Purple, Moorhen common, Lapwing Blacksmith, Thick-knees spotted, Barbet Crested, Stonechat, Swallow Barn, Myra Common.  

Submitted by: Flip Lessing at 2010/06/15 08:52:13 AM

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