Uganda Day 3 - Kibale NP & travel to Semuliki NP

  Having got our main target for the area yesterday there was no need to pay to enter the National Park and instead opted to bird around the NP edges and from the road that cuts through the forest. On the way we found a few smart birds by the side of the road, including Black-shouldered Nightjar, Shining-blue Kingfisher, Meyer’s Parrot and Village Indigobird.
  Once we were birding alongside the forest road we had a few nice species but the overall composition of species was very similar to the previous days birding. The absolute highlight of the morning happened when a biker pulled over to tell us that an African Forest Elephant was feeding on the roadside just a couple of kilometers further. We made haste and soon found the animal gorging itself on the forest vegetation. We did not attempt to get too close, but to get fantastic views of this shy forest resident was more than we could have asked for on the trip. On the bird front we were lucky to find Afep Pigeon, as well as Sabine’s Spinetail and Ayre’s Hawk-Eagle. We tried another location for a few species and we had a few nice birds such as Jameson's Wattle-eye and Western Nicator.
  Having been very successful in our time at Kibale we decided to leave a day earlier in order to give ourselves more time at our next National Park; Semuliki which was far more remote and we only had a single full day there. The drive was only two hours in total and we arrived there early evening allowing us to do a little birding before bed. That said, we found nothing particularly different, with only common species to show for it.

-Meyer's Parrot

-Schmidt's Red-tailed Monkey

-African Forest Pigeon

-Afep Pigeon

-Olive Baboon

-Magpie Mannikin

-Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird

-Brown-eared Woodpecker

-Western Nicator

-Jameson's Wattle-eye

Species List:
Bigodi General Area: Blue-spotted Wood Dove, Tambourine Dove, Black-shouldered Nightjar, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird, African Grey Woodpecker, Brown-eared Woodpecker, Meyer’s Parrot, Shining-blue Kingfisher, Jameson's Wattle-eye, African Blue Flycatcher, Western Nicator, White-chinned Prinia, Buff-throated Apalis, Lesser Striped Swallow, Little Greenbul, Dark-capped Bulbul, Green White-eye, Brown Illadopsis, Violet-backed Starling, Green-headed Sunbird, Black-necked Weaver, Vieillot's Black Weaver, Magpie Mannikin, Village Indigobird,
Kibale Forest National Park: Afep Pigeon, Tambourine Dove, African Green Pigeon, Great Blue Turaco, Black-billed Turaco, Blue Malkoha, Sabine's Spinetail, Ayres's Hawk-Eagle, Steppe Buzzard, Black Bee-eater, Blue-throated Roller, Grey-throated Barbet, Speckled Tinkerbird, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird, Petit's Cuckooshrike, Western Oriole, Chestnut Wattle-eye, African Shrike-flycatcher, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher, Green Crombec, Grey-backed Camaroptera, Buff-throated Apalis, Sand Martin, Plain Greenbul, Toro Olive Greenbul, Dark-capped Bulbul, Purple-headed Starling, Collared Sunbird, Green-headed Sunbird, Grey-headed Nigrita, African Forest Elephant, Mantled Guereza, Schmidt's Red-tailed Monkey, Olive Baboon,
Semuliki National Park: African Palm Swift, Palm-nut Vulture, African Wood Owl, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Dark-capped Bulbul, Purple-headed Starling, African Thrush, Vieillot's Black Weaver,