Early on a Saturday morning at the end of April 2016, fully packed and ready to go camping, we headed south to farm Nomtsas where the annual Ringers' Get-together was to take place. Twenty four birders and ringers flocked together to spend four days enjoying camping, ringing and bird atlasing. By the time we arrived the early arrivals had already established a good list of birds present on the pentad. Every morning groups of people drove to other parts of the huge farm to atlas - in total eleven pentads where atlased in the area, with a good number of species recorded in spite of it being winter time. However, the Fish River which passes through the farm still had some standing water in it which attracted birds to the area.