Welcome to ISD event. In The Shadow of the Dragon  🐉🌄

Small container with log only so BYOP

Plenty of parking and a short walk to ground zero for a quick find. Please be careful when retrieving and replacing cache container. Given the next cacher the same hunting/searching experience.

The African barbets are birds in the family Lybiidae.

Scientific name: Lybiidae

Higher classification: Piciformes

Common throughout South Africa, the Crested Barbet is a small bird with a speckled yellow and red face with a small black crest. The belly is yellow with red speckles, wings are black with white specks and it has a broad black band on its neck. Yellow head and body with black and white feathers, red markings on end of body, its colour blends well in the bush.

The Crested Barbet is a most welcomed garden bird as it is capable of eliminating the local snail population. They have a distinct shrill. They hop around on the ground looking for food. They do not fly easily and then only for short distances. Crested Barbets roost in holes in trees. Extremely vocal birds, their call is a trill that can continue for long periods.

Barbet
The mist-belt forests support a number of charismatic species, including Cape Parrot, Grey Cuckoo-shrike, Knysna Turaco, White-starred Robin, Olive Bushshrike, Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler, Olive Woodpecker, Southern Double-collared Sunbird and Forest Canary. Search for Olive Woodpecker, Yellow-breasted and Bar-throated Apalis, Green-backed Camaroptera and perhaps Lazy Cisticola in bracken and scrub on the edge of the forests. They are generally less vocal and active, but they are there!