Uganda Day 17 - Mabira Forest & Entebbe Botanical Garden

   Our last day in Uganda has finally come around. We spent the morning birding around our camp in Mabira Forest before driving to Entebbe where we would spend the afternoon in the Botanical Gardens there before flying home in the evening.
  The mornings birding was difficult once again and we were unable to find many species but there were still a few highlights and personally I managed three lifers; Yellow-billed Barbet, Red-capped Robin-Chat and the best of the morning in Forest Woodhoopoe. The latter was our main target at this site so it was good that we were able to find a couple showing nicely in the forest.
  Because of the difficulty birding the site we decided to head towards Entebbe during mid-morning to arrive just after lunch. After a slight delay where the car would not start and some subsequent issues with our tyre rapidly loosing pressure we eventually made good time such that we were able to spend a few hours birding in the Botanical Gardens there.
  Our main target here was the near-endemic Orange Weaver and we were quickly able to find a few individuals feeding by the side of lake Victoria. The other birding was also very rewarding here, with excellent views of African Pygmy Kingfisher, African Openbill and other common wetland species being the highlight. Sadly our afternoon was then cut short by an approaching storm, followed by more battery issues with the car. When we finally reached the airport just before dark we also found that the car tyre had gone completely flat, bringing our excellent trip to its conclusion.

-Yellow-billed Barbet

-Forest Wood Hoopoe

-Achatina stuhlmanni

-African Pygmy Kingfisher

-Yellow-billed Kite

-African Openbill

-Orange Weaver

-Pink-backed Pelican

-Southern Banded Groundling

Species List:
Mabira Forest: Great Blue Turaco, Blue Malkoha, Narina Trogon, Forest Wood Hoopoe, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, White-throated Bee-eater, Yellow-billed Barbet, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher, Little Greenbul, Dark-capped Bulbul, Scaly-breasted Illadopsis, Fraser's Rufous Thrush, African Thrush, Red-capped Robin-Chat, Mantled Guereza, Schmidt's Red-tailed Monkey, Grey-cheeked Mangabey

Entebbe Botanical Gardens: Egyptian Goose, Great Blue Turaco, African Palm Swift, Spur-winged Lapwing, Common Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Wood Sandpiper, African Openbill, Marabou Stork, Reed Cormorant, Pink-backed Pelican, Hamerkop, Black-headed Heron, Little Egret, Western Cattle Egret, Striated Heron, Hadada Ibis, Yellow-billed Kite, Common Buzzard, Crowned Hornbill, African Pygmy Kingfisher, Woodland Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher, White-throated Bee-eater, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, Broad-billed Roller, Pied Crow, Winding Cisticola, Dark-capped Bulbul, African Thrush, Swamp Flycatcher, Scarlet-chested Sunbird, Orange Weaver, Vieillot's Black Weaver, Red-billed Firefinch, Bronze Mannikin, Western Yellow Wagtail,