The dramatic gorges and rocky canyons around Swartberg Pass not only provides a spectacular backdrop to a birding venue, but is also a genuinely great birding site. We picked up Victorin's Scrub-warbler as we climbed up towards the pass, along with a Protea Seedeater,and several Cape Rock-thrushes. Once we had reached the pass, and cracked open a bag of ostrich biltong, we eyed a Cape Rockjumper standing peering down at us from a high rocky perch, and a short walk around a bluff bought us our first Ground Woodpeckers, that dwell here in this craggy, treeless terrain.