SAKUMONO, WINNEBA PLAINS AND TO CAPE COAST
Sakumono lagoon is a place like no other , it has many combination of birds that even the hardest better will be amazed at the number of birds and the ease with which they will bee seen. Sakumono lagoon has a combination of Savanna birds and shore birds . Some birds not know to be in the south of Ghana has been found in this place like the long tailed starling and the little rush warbler. Other species found here are African grey horn bill, Senegal parrot, black capped babbler,brown babbler, northern crombec, yellow crowned gonolek , piacpiac, green wood hoopoe ,Senegal coucal etc are just to mention a few of the about 40 species that we will see here which includes some waders and shore birds too.
DAY THREE AND FOUR
KAKUM NATIONAAL PARK AND CANOPY WALK WAY
Kakum forest is the most popular bird place in Ghana. The canopy walkway allows you the opportunity to see great birds in close proximity longtailed hawk,African cuckoo hawk, many species of green bul, parots, pied horn bill, red billed dwarf horn bill,two species of orioles,over four species cuckoos , Drongos , sunbirds , flycatchers ,doves,pigeons, eagles ,hawks have all been recorded here. The canopy walkway is just a fantanstic place and easily the best place to see birds in Africa .We will hoping to see about 50 to 100 species from this walkway. The other forest around Kakum , Sushen and Gyawari will provide us the opportunity to see some lower strata birds that we may miss at the canopy walkway.
SUSHEN FOREST AND GYAWARI
Sushen is the off shoot of Kakum forest , Here the birds are easy to see because most part of the road leading to the forest is farm land and sparse trees. The Puvel's Illadopsis , Grey headed Bristle bill , Black bee eaters, the red cheeked wattle eyes, the red rumped tinker bird, splendid starling, Pied horn bill, African Gosh hawk, African cuckoo hawk are amoung the many birds that you will see here . Here because of the easiness in see the birds we will expect to see close to 70 species.
ANTWIKWAA, RIVER PRA TO PICATHETES
Antwikwaa is at the western part of Kakum forest on this road we have seen wonderful birds like the black bee eater, puvels illadopsis,brown illadopsis, red cheek wattled eye ,grey hornbill,kemps long bill are just a few birds that we will see here. From here we will go to river Pra here we will see the rock pratincole,white throted blue swallow and we may also see the white headed lapwing. This is the only spot to see the Rock pratincole . From here we will return to the hotel and move to our next destination.
NEW EDUBIASE FOREST AND BOBIRI FOREST
New Edubiase forest is the closest forest to the picathertes forest . That there are many birds here can not be disputed , Blue cuckoo shrike, Red fronted parrot, Long tailed hawk, the bristle nosed barbet, Afep pigeon, forest wood hoopoe , yellow mantled weavers, thick billed cuckoo are among the many birds we shall see here .
From New Edubiase we shall continue to Kumasi from where we shall visit the Bobiri forest. Our main target among other birds we shall see is the Grey parrot . The forest is full of birds and we shall do justice to them.
OPURO FOREST TO MOLE FOREST
Today we will go up north to Mole national park , on our way we will make so many stops starting from Opuro forest, in this forest we shall look for the cappuchin babbler, fiery breasted bush shrike, we have also see the blue headed beater in this forest. Forest scrub robin have also been recorded here, after about three hours of quick birding here we will continue to Kintampo which is the geographical center of Ghana for lunch after the lunch we will now continue north stopping at numerous water hole where we will see the likes of Grasshopper buzzard,lizard buzzard, Abyssinnian roller,egrets,hammer cops,black headed heron,grey heron etc.
But before we get to Mole national park we must branch off to see Ghana's number two bird the EGYPTIAN PLOVER . after the egyptian plover site we will drive to the Mole air field to look for the standard winged Night jar and the grayish eagle owl.
MOLE NATIONAL PARK
Bird watching at Mole is outstanding; the ease with which one can see the birds will amaze you. All Ghana’s savanna birds are to be found here. Among the most interesting species are Forbes plover ,Abyssinian Ground Horn bill, Saddle-billed Stork, Bateleur, Martial Eagle, African Hawk Eagle, Hadada Ibis, Long-tailed Starling, Purple Glossy Starling,Spotted creeper,yellow bellied hyliota,oriole warbler,white crowned robin chat,Red winged pytilia,red headed love bird, African Golden Oriole, African Hobby, Chestnut-crowned Sparrow, Stone Partridge, Scarlet-chested Sunbird, Giant Kingfisher, Blue-breasted Kingfisher, Red-throated Bee-eater, Broad-billed Roller, Exclamatory Paradise Whydah, Pel's fishing owl,Grayish eagle owl,African scops owl,pearl spotted owlet and northern white faced owl are also present.
The water wholes that are almost drying up is the gathering of this birds and some mammals. We have on record to have seen 150 species in this park. So we will give it our best shot. We will bird areas people dive past for the special species like brown rumped bunting,cabanis bunting, white breasted cuckoo shrike, Emins shrike, White fronted black chat,white shouldered black tit, square tailed drongo etc
MOLE NATIONAL PARK TO KUMASI
Today we will travel down south again . Birding our way down to kumasi. We will stop all the water ponds which are normally is a gathering point for birds . The journey down south is always nice because we have the chance to see lots of birds like the long crested eagle, Grass hopper buzzard , rollers and many other birds that we might have missed on our way to Mole and Mole NP itself.
BOBIRI TO ATEWA FOREST
The road inside Bobiri forest is filled with birds and buterflies , we have seen long tailed hawk, congo serpent eagle, red thighed sparrow hawk, Cassin hawk eagle , white throated bee eater , narina trogon,least honey guide while walking on this road . Afep pigeon, fraser's eagle owl, african wood owl , latham's forest francolin,african piculet have all been seen here. Bobiri is a very good place to recover any species we missed .
After the morning nirding we will move to Atewa area. This evening we shall bird the foot of hill as it will be too hot to move up the hill the in search of the blue headed bee eater.
ATEWA NATIONAL PARK TO ACCRA
Atewa forest is a very important forest in Ghana, the hill in this forest is about 770 meters and because it is not steep it makes for easy birding. The main target in this forest is normaly the Blue headed bee eater . But on the way to the top of this hill, we have see so many birds like the blue headed wood dove, chocolate backed kingfisher,tessman.s flycatcher, red bellied paradise flycatcher , shining drongo, rufous sided broad bill, narow tailed starling, copper tailed starling , cassin's hawk eagle, crowned eagle,fire bellied woodpecker,green woodpecker and Gabon wood pecker and many other species. It is normally one of the best birding days because we spend more time in the field here than any other day.
SHAI HILLS AND DEPARTURE
Our first stop for the day will be SHAI HILLS , it is Savanna area in the south of Ghana , we have recorded may many special birds here like the mocking chat, the senegal batis,double spured francolin, helmeted guinea fowl, black bellied bustard, long grested eagle , red necked buzzard,splendid sun bird,flappet lark, yellow throated long claw,blue bellied roller,African paradise flycatcher, bearded barbet, yellow throated greenbull and most recently green twin spot. Shai hill is good to start a trip like this which will spend most time in the forest.