The Cape Bird Club
Counts - Eddie Friend's monthly bird count at Zandvlei.
Western entrance gate to Wildwood Bird Sanctuary (Zandvlei) in 1983.
This is Eddie Friend's April 1994 count at what
was then known as the Wildwood Bird Sanctuary, today known as the Zandvlei
Nature Reserve.
This data was found in an old issue of the Zandvlei Trust – Autumn 1994
Newsletter.
Weather conditions; Cloudy, mild, light drizzle, wind – none.
| Species | Qty | Species | Qty |
| Great crested Grebe | 1 | Dikkop | 2 |
| Dabchick | 2 | Blackbacked Gull | 2 |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 4 | Hartlaubs Gull | 9 |
| Darter | 12 | Caspian tern | 2 |
| Grey Heron | 1 | Cape Turtle Dove | 8 |
| Purplr Heron | 1 | Gaint kingfisher | 3 |
| Little Egret | 5 | Pied Kingfisher | 1 |
| Sacred Ibis | 17 | Malachite Kingfisher | 3 |
| Glossy Ibis | 11 | Cape Bulbul | 8 |
| Spoonbill | 2 | Cape Robin | 4 |
| Egyptian Goose | 5 | Cape Reed Warbler | 10 |
| Cape Shoveller | 15 | African Sedge warbler | 4 |
| Red Billed Teal | 3 | Levailant's Cisticola | 3 |
| Cape Teal | 24 | Karoo Prinia | 3 |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 1 | European Starling | 20 |
| Purple Galinule | 3 | Cape Weaver | 2 |
| Moorhen | 4 | Yellow Bishop | 2 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 45 | Common Waxbill | 8 |
| Blacksmith Plover | 11 | Olive thrush | 1 |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 10 | – | – |
