After our long day yesterday we had a long drive today as it took about 7 hours to get to Mole National park. Enroute we stopped to get a type of doughnut - crispy and hard on the outside doughy on inside - we have become quite partial to this roadside delight and definitely kept us going until lunchtime. Our destination was the Mole hotel, the only accommodation in the park until a much needed new lodge is completed by year end. The building is tired and in ne...

Today was the day we hoped to see the elusive yellow headed PICATHARTES or rock fowl. As we visit the nesting site as it roosts we didn't have to be at Bonkuru village until around 2pm. That said we we up at our normal time and after breakfast went to the Abrafo Forest near Kakum to see what we could find and were rewarded after ferreting around in thick bushes with seeing the blue shouldered robin chat and Purvel's Illadopsis - a small yellow/green/brown bird ...

This morning after our usual early start we visited the Antwikwaa section of Kakum National Park but stayed on the edge abutting farmland which allowed us to watch the local comings and goings of the people as well as the birds. There were children going to school families heading to the fields to work, most walking but the occasional motorbike passed us. I am amazed by everything being carried on their heads most of the women will have a cloth ring under the i...

We had another early 5.30 am breakfast as today we headed for the excellent canopy walkway at Kakum National Park, a 15 minute drive from our hotel. The 360 km² Kakum National Park protects secondary upper guinea tropical rainforest and our aim was to get there for first light enabling us to spend the most active bird viewing hours 40 meters above the forest floor on the canopy walkway, on one or more of the seven platforms which are joined by...

Although we could have returned to Nsutu forest for a final mornings birding before setting off for The Rainforest Lodge Hotel at Jukwa, our accommodation for the next 3 nights, whilst we visit the Kakum National Park we decided against it because of the state of the roads. Instead we went to a marshy area near the beach, albeit it was quite dry now and found all the tchagras - marsh, black crowned and brown crowned, swallows collecting mud for their nests (tod...