We visited Cape Town 29th July to 14th August. It was a family visit but I managed to get a fair bit of birding done. It was my first taste of Southern African birding and I was very impressed. The Cape Town area is very accessible, full of wildlife and great fun!
There are several good birdguides available for Southern Africa but I plumped for the SASOL Birds of Southern Africa (Sinclair, Hockey, Tarboton. Struik Publishers). I browsed a couple of the others in bookshops and they have their virtues but I'm happy with the SASOL.
I'll add more birds and some annotation as soon as I can.
Note: birds are listed alphabetically
African dusky flycatcher
Black oystercatcher
African pelican
African white ibis
Black-headed heron
Black-necked grebe
Blacksmith plover
Black-winged stilt
Bokmakierie (a pity I couldn't get closer to this wonderful bird)
Bully canary
Cape batis
Cape bunting
Cape canary
Cape francolin
Cape robin-chat
Cape shoveller
Cape sparrow
Cape teal
Cape wagtail
Cape weaver
Cape white eye
Cattle egret
Common fiscal
Common waxbill
Glossy ibis
Great flamingo
Hadeda ibis
hartlaub's gulls
Karoo prinia
Karoo scrub-robin
Kelp gull
Layard's tit-babbler
Lesser swamp-warbler
Levaillant's cisticola
Little grebe
Little rush-warbler
Malachite sunbird
Mountain wheatear
Olive thrush
Orange-breasted sunbird
Pied kingfisher
Purple gallinule (African purple swamphen)
Purple heron (wary)
Red-billed teal
Red-knobbed coot
Red-winged starlings
Southern boubou
Southern double-collared sunbird
Southern masked weaver
Southern pochard (female)
Southern red bishop
Spotted eagle owl
Spotted thick-knee
Three-banded plover
White-backed duck
White-breasted cormorant
Yellow-billed duck
Yellow canary
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