We picked up our bird guide for the day, Yaya Barry, at the hotel reception at 07:30am and decided to go round the Kotu Creek area to start our Gambian holiday and get a feel for the climate.
This produced various birds as we stood at  the bridge and went round the various tracks along the mangroves i.e Pied Kingfishers, Hammerkop, Shikra, Yellow Crowned Gonolek, Wire Tailed Swallows, Senegal Thick-Knee, Long Tailed Glossy Starlings, Yellow Billed Shrikes, Palm Nut Vulture, Black Headed Herons.
Our first day in the Gambian heat we decided on a break about 01:00pm and head out again about 04:30pm after a rest in the Hotel bar. About 04:30pm we started again around the Golf Course. This produced such birds as Splendid Sunbird, Senegal Parrots, Broad Billed Rollers, Brown Babblers, Green Wood Hoopoe, Black Headed Plovers, Purple Glossy Starling, Fork Tailed Drongos, Spur Winged Plovers, Piapiac, and Striated Heron.

Day Total = 66 Birds