Easy
8 Days Birding
Day1: Arrive at Entebbe AIRPORT. Meet your
local smiling guide who will transfer you to your hotel. Early
arrivals will be welcomed by an afternoon birding orientation
at Entebbe Botanical gardens. Watch out for the Brown throated
waver, golden backed weaver, yellow backed weaver, grey headed
gull, long tailed cormorant, common squacco heron, yellow
billed duck, pied kingfisher, giant kingfisher, swamp flycatcher,
broad billed roller, black and white casqued hornbill, splendid
glossy starling, black headed gonolek, orange weaver, red
chested sunbird, slender billed weaver, Ross’s turaco,
pied hornbill, crowned hornbill, open billed stork, great
red warbler, sedge warbler, grey caped warbler and many other
species.
Dinner and overnight at Imperial Botanical Hotel.
Day 2: Early morning birding Lincoln trail.
This has over 170 species that have so far been recorded.
Interested birders may record over 110 species in a day. So
far the local bird guides have recommended this trail as the
best spot nearest to Kampala. Watch out for white-headed barbet,
red headed lovebird, double toothed barbet, brown twin spot,
tambourine dove, black-headed bush shrike, scaly francolin,
tropical boubou, and other various species. Dinner and
overnight at Imperial Botanical Hotel.
Day 3: After an early breakfast drive to
Mabamba Important Bird Area with packed lunch. Mabamba is
the closest and best spot to watch the majestic African shoebill
in the wild. Stop over in Mpigi Swamp for papyrus rarities.
Watch out for the usual papyrus gonolek, white winged warbler,
yellow backed weaver, northern brown-throated weaver and blue-headed
coucal. Proceed to Mabamba wetland. Most of the birding is
done on the canoe. Look out for the majestic shy shoebill
stork both in the sky exploring the heights and down in the
marshy swamp, Watch out closely for the swamp flycatcher,
purple swamp hen, African water rail, common moorhen, lesser
jacana, African jacana, African pygmy goose, white faced whistling
duck, squacco heron, blue breasted bee-eater, winding cistcola,
goliath heron, black crake and many more.
Imperial Botanical Hotel for Dinner and overnight stay.
Day 4:After an early breakfast depart Queen
Elizabeth National Park as you bird enroute. Stop over in
Mbarara for lunch. Over 640 bird species have been recorded
in QNP. Keen birders may be interested to know that a single
day’s record can yield to 300 species out of 604 in
the Park, one of the highest in the whole world. Key species
seen here include, pelicans, skimmers, kingfishers, thick-knees,
storks, martins, swallows, weavers, raptors, canaries, kites
and grassland specialties. Dinner and overnight at Mweya Safari
Lodge.
Day 5: Early morning birding on the open
savanna. Return to the hotel for lunch, relax and chart the
break away or if you wish you may have a short dip in the
luxurious swimming pool. Afternoon enjoy birding along Kazinga
channel on boat. Kazinga channel joins Lake Edward and Lake
George, which gives it a wonderful site in a lovely environment
with its various beautiful water birds along the channel.
Dinner and overnight at Mweya Safari Lodge.
Day 6: After an early breakfast, birding
around the peninsular is productive. Check out at 10:00am
for Lake Mburo National Park. Your drive is punctuated with
several stopovers to catch up with the barefaced go away bird,
crowned plover, wattled lapwing, southern red bishop, varied
sunbird, African harrier hawk, larks and many more species.
Enjoy the free songs of the morning dove, deidrick cuckoo,
grey-capped warbler and black-headed weaver. Park. Dinner
and overnight at Mantana Luxury tented camp.
Day 7: Leave at dawn to get the African
fin foot at Lake Mburo before it disappears into the papyrus
beds floating on the Lake. Look out for the brown chested
lapwing, lilac breasted roller, black bellied bustard, helmet
guinea fowl, coqui francolin, rufous napped lark, vultures,
eagles, kites and many more. Depart for Kampala in time for
shopping and transfer to Entebbe after. Imperial Botanical
Hotel for Dinner and overnight stay.
Day 8: Departure.
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