The Cape Flats Waste Water Treatment Works, or simply Strandfontein as it is known to birders, also forms part of the False Bay Nature Reserve. It really is a marvel for birders as you can drive around the gravel paths and see and photograph birds at close quarters.

Strandfontein features more than 300 hectares of reed-fringed detention ponds and dunes connected by gravel roads that are usually in good condition, although on this occasion we did have one terrifying moment when we got stuck in  a very deep section of slurry which had been deposited on one of the paths.and which demanded all our driving skills and ingenuity in to order to extricate from a very embarrassing situation.

In the end it was really worthwhile and we saw an amazing amount of birds in a very short trip.

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Greater flamingo

Greater flamingo

Greater flamingo

Cape weaver

Black-winged stilt

White-necked raven

Cattle egret

Cattle egret

Blacksmith lapwing

African sacred ibis

African sacred ibis

African sacred ibis

White-faced whistling duck

White-faced whistling duck

Great white pelican

African sacred ibis and glossy ibis

Egytian goose

Spur-winged goose

Red billed teal

Little grebe

Barn swallow

Caspian tern