OK, it has come to my knowledge that we have senior citizens visiting my web page. How hard can it 
be? So it's not very easy for them to see the blue coloured links to the next page.
noun [in SING.] informal a moment: we'll be back in a jiffy.
ORIGIN late 18th cent.: of unknown origin.
So as you understand, in a jiff pretty much depends on your internet.
So I put a “Next” button here and I hope that there isn't any problem to understand how to use that one. So just CLICK the “Next” button on your left hand side and you will be on the next page in a jiff!
Marunong ka mag-tagalog? Walang problema! Magpunta sa kabilang pahina pindutin ang “NEXT” button sa itaas
Faites vous parlez le français? Pas de problème! Pour arriver à la page suivante faites s'il vous plaît un déclic le bouton “Next” ci-dessus!
Haga usted dice el español? No hay problema! Ver la siguiente página sólo hacer clic el botón “Next” encima!
Farla parla l'italiano? Non problemi! Per vedere la prossima pagina lo scatto per favore giusto Il bottone “Next” sopra
Sprechen sie Deutsch! Kein problem! Wenn Sie die folgende Seite sehen wollen gerade klicken der Knopf “Next” oben!
คุณพูดภาษาไทยได้ไหม ไม่มีปัญหา ถ้าคุณต้องการไปหน้าถัดไป ให้กดปุ่ม “Next”
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Вы говорите по-русски? Просто нажмите синюю кнопку "Next" с левой стороны и Вы моментально переместитесь на следующую страницу!
E ni Svenskar och inte förstår Engelska så ska ni skämmas. J och Björn, med det menar jag inte att alla mina stavfel ska ältas varje gång vi träffas.
Well, the flag of Skåne, just a BONUS flag.
be? So it's not very easy for them to see the blue coloured links to the next page. Jiffy (also jiff)
noun [in SING.] informal a moment: we'll be back in a jiffy.
ORIGIN late 18th cent.: of unknown origin.
So as you understand, in a jiff pretty much depends on your internet.
Marunong ka mag-tagalog? Walang problema! Magpunta sa kabilang pahina pindutin ang “NEXT” button sa itaasFaites vous parlez le français? Pas de problème! Pour arriver à la page suivante faites s'il vous plaît un déclic le bouton “Next” ci-dessus!Haga usted dice el español? No hay problema! Ver la siguiente página sólo hacer clic el botón “Next” encima!Farla parla l'italiano? Non problemi! Per vedere la prossima pagina lo scatto per favore giusto Il bottone “Next” sopraSprechen sie Deutsch! Kein problem! Wenn Sie die folgende Seite sehen wollen gerade klicken der Knopf “Next” oben! คุณพูดภาษาไทยได้ไหม ไม่มีปัญหา ถ้าคุณต้องการไปหน้าถัดไป ให้กดปุ่ม “Next”
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Вы говорите по-русски? Просто нажмите синюю кнопку "Next" с левой стороны и Вы моментально переместитесь на следующую страницу!
E ni Svenskar och inte förstår Engelska så ska ni skämmas. J och Björn, med det menar jag inte att alla mina stavfel ska ältas varje gång vi träffas.Well, the flag of Skåne, just a BONUS flag.
July 2025
Tuesday 29 th of July 2025 and I am in the reception at 3 o'clock to meet my Guide. My Guide have a Driver, same as in Senegal. We leave Ocean Bay Hotel & Resort behind and we will go to Kotu Creek to look for birds.
We park the car at the bridge across the Kotu Creek and we get out to have a look for birds. It is high water so we walk around looking for birds while waiting for the low water.
We spot a pair of Northern Puffbacks, the male takes off, but I get a picture of the female.
We get in to the vegetation and we spot one African Paradise-Flycatcher, but it was too dark in the vegetation to get any pictures.
Northern Puffback
Listen to the Common Bulbul
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Remarks from the Recordist
Recorded with my mobile phone using my JBL microphone with the Merlin app. High Pass Filter applied with Audacity.
In the mangrove being eaten by mosquitos trying to get pictures of an African Paradise Flycatcher when the bulbul starts to make noise
But I manage to get a recording of the Common Bulbul while in the vegetation. The mosquitos was terrible and I got back out on the paved road.
I spot one Pied Kingfisher hunting Pied Kingfisher “style” above the Kotu Creek. The Pied Kingfisher hunting is a very nice sight, standing still in the air flapping the wings.
We leave the bridge walking along the road going back towards the city. There are a lot of birds and I manage to get two recordings, both of birds that have destroyed many of my recording attempts by calling non-stop.
The Spur-winged Lapwing and the Long-tailed Glossy Starling, very noisy birds and when they are close by it is impossible to record any other birds.
Pied Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Listen to the Long-tailed Glossy Starling
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Remarks from the Recordist
Recorded with my mobile phone using my JBL microphone with the Merlin app. High Pass Filter applied with Audacity.
We can hear the Spur-winged Lapwing from recording XC1024226 in the background
Listen to the Spur-winged Lapwing
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Remarks from the Recordist
Recorded with my mobile phone using my JBL microphone with the Merlin app. High Pass Filter applied with Audacity.
Call and from about 00:26 it is a flight call.
We can hear the Long-tailed Glossy Starling from recording XC1024224 in the background.
Broad-billed Roller
Laughing Dove
We spot one Broad-billed Roller while walking along the road. The sun is pounding us and it was very hot. But there was a lot of birds so I did not think about the blazing heat so much. We came to a huge tree and the tree was full of birds.
There was one Western Red-billed Hornbill that I could see from far away. And I could hear and see a group of Long-tailed Glossy Starlings. I approach and I expect the Long-tailed Glossy Starling to take off when I approach.
Surprisingly enough, the birds approach me and one of them come to have a look at me and it is so close so I cannot take pictures. I guess they are used to people as there are many people coming down to enjoy Kotu Creek.
The starlings, normally take off as soon as they see you.
Western Red-billed Hornbill
Long-tailed Glossy Starlings
Long-tailed Glossy Starlings
Long-tailed Glossy Starlings
White-billed Buffalo-Weaver
I never managed to get any good pictures of the White-billed Buffalo-Weaver in Senegal. There was a group of White-billed Buffalo-Weaver under the tree and they were busy collecting nest materials. They were not scared and I could get pictures.
They build huge nest of sticks, really huge and you cannot miss them when passing them. It is like an apartment building with several nests inside the “stick house”
This common weaver occurs in open country, especially cultivation and scrub. It is a communal breeder, building massive untidy stick nests in
tree colonies, each of which may have several spherical woven nests within. Two to four eggs are laid.
There is also one Vinaceous Dove, a new “LIFER” for me. Already many new “LIFER” for me and we have not spent much time at the Kotu Creek. We walk towards the rice paddies and there was not very much to see.
The water is getting out and we should be able to see the mudflats down at Kotu Creek.
Passing the big tree and now there are a group of Yellow-billed Shrikes and this is also a new “LIFER” for me. My Guide spotted one more “LIFER” in the tree, the African Grey Woodpecker.
Western Red-billed Hornbill
Yellow-billed Shrike
Yellow-billed Shrike
Yellow-billed Shrike
Yellow-billed Shrike
White-billed Buffalo-Weaver
Vinaceous Dove
African Grey Woodpecker
African Grey Woodpecker
Lesser Blue-eared Starling
Lesser Blue-eared Starling
Lesser Blue-eared Starling, and now I have managed to get pictures of 4 different starlings in West Africa and I was happy. And the Lesser Blue-eared Starling is a “LIFER” as well.
I report the Senegal Coucal, could not see the bird, but I heard at least two and I managed to get a recording. One bird is close and there is one Senegal Coucal replying, but far away.
Of course, there is a starling in the recording, but we can hear the Senegal Coucal.
Listen to the Senegal Coucal
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Remarks from the Recordist
Recorded with my mobile phone using my JBL microphone with the Merlin app. High Pass Filter applied with Audacity.
And, if it isn't the lapwings destroying my recordings it is the starlings. Long-tailed Glossy Starling in the same tree destroy my recording.
Little Weaver
Little Weaver
Little Weaver
Back at the bridge and now the tide has gone out. We take a seat, concrete benches overlooking the mudflats. There are one Reed Cormorant and Pied Kingfishers. Two Wire-tailed Swallow are sitting on a stick on the mud flats.
Two Great White Egrets were looking for fish behind the mud flats.
It was nice to sit down watching the mud flats with an cooling wind blowing between the mangroves over the Kotu Creek. I enjoyed to watch the Reef Egret hunting for fish. The bird really looked funny sneaking up on the fish.
The egret was making a shadow using its wings to see the fish better.
Pied Kingfishers and a Reed Cormorant
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Reed Cormorant
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Malachite Kingfisher
Malachite Kingfisher
Western Reef-Heron (Dark Morph)
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Western Reef-Heron (Dark Morph)
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Wire-tailed Swallow
Western Reef-Heron (Dark Morph)
Western Reef-Heron (Dark Morph)
Wire-tailed Swallow
Wire-tailed Swallow
Great White Egret
Pied Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
We call it a day and we drive back to Ocean Bay Hotel & Resort. We make a stop so I can buy some milk to have for my tea when I drink tea in my room. I buy some biscuits and refreshments to have on our upcoming trip to eastern Gambia.
They drop me at my hotel and they will be back at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. We will go for a full day trip around Banjul. Walking to my room and I spot one Black Kite sitting in a palm tree outside my room.
The Black Kite is the last bird for today and I spend the rest of the evening in my room drinking tea and looking at my bird pictures.
Black Kite
Black Kite
Today's species count:
38
Today's “LIFER”
8
Today's species
Village IndigobirdVillage Weaver
Little Weaver
White-billed Buffalo-Weaver
Beautiful Sunbird
Lesser Blue-eared Starling
Long-tailed Glossy Starling
Blackcap Babbler
Common Bulbul
Wire-tailed Swallow
Pied Crow
Yellow-billed Shrike
African Paradise-Flycatcher
Northern Puffback
African Grey Woodpecker
Broad-billed Roller
Malachite Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Blue-breasted Kingfisher
Woodland Kingfisher
Little Bee-eater
Western Red-billed Hornbill
Black Kite
Hooded Vulture
Hamerkop
Yellow-billed Egret
Great White Egret
Striated Heron
Western Reef-Heron
Reed Cormorant
Grey-hooded Gull
Senegal Coucal
Laughing Dove
Vinaceous Dove
Mourning Collared Dove
Piapiac
Today's “LIFER”
Lesser Blue-eared StarlingBlackcap Babbler
Yellow-billed Shrike
African Paradise-Flycatcher
Northern Puffback
African Grey Woodpecker
Blue-breasted Kingfisher
Vinaceous Dove
8 “LIFERS” today and I am quite excited over the bird watching tomorrow. How many “LIFERS” will I see tomorrow?
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