Here is a closer look at some of the regular visitors to our garden:
African Green Pigeon
Black-headed Oriole
Greater Double-collared Sunbird
Lesser-striped Swallows
Pin-tailed Whydah
Streaky-headed Seedeater
SOME GARDEN BIRDS
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Scribbles from my notebook
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What delightful variety. Wow, that sunbird!
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I am pleased you like them: the sunbird is particularly beautiful.
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Lieflike versameling, Anne.
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Ek waardeer jou besoek, Una 🙂
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Nice little collection.
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Thank you for visiting my garden, Cal.
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What a long tail you have, Pin-tailed Whydah!
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This is a male in breeding plumage – wearing a tuxedo to woo his ladies. During winter he loses his tail and reverts to wearing a tweed outfit.
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Very stylish no matter the season.
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These photos are marvellously clear, enabling one to take in so much detail. Absolutely delightful, Anne! Well done and thank you for sharing them with us. I share your obvious thrill and excitement, with each visitor that graces our garden. They all bring me great joy as your visitors so clearly do! I wish my own photos were as impressive.
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You are very kind and generous in your praise, Desirée, for I assure you that most of my photographs end up in the digital bin! I am so pleased to know that you are also an ardent garden bird watcher – the birds provide me with a lot of pleasure and I have come to know them so much better over the years.
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Wowsah, as we would say in Maine. What beauties! I was impressed with that long, long tail. Must be heavy to fly with.
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I am fortunate to have attracted such an interesting variety of birds to our garden. I don’t think the Pin-tailed Whydah’s tail is particularly heavy as he appears to be very agile with it – darts about and even hovers in the air as though it is dancing to impress a female.
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You have some really beautiful, colorful birds and many have such fun names. 🙂
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At least the bird names are descriptive, picking on at least one clear characteristic. The names of butterflies on the other hand, flummox me completely: tigers, opals, and kites to name a few.
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You get a lot more colour than us. My favourite today was the African Green Pigeon
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Admittedly, I hear the African Green Pigeons more often than I see them for, as large as they are, they are masters of camouflage within the foliage of the fig tree.
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So colourful. Pigeon seems too ordinary a name for such a beautiful bird!
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Yet, pigeon it is. I am delighted that they have become regular visitors to our garden over the years.
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I know I’m repeating myself but your garden really is a haven for birds, Anne. Well done!
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Trees and birds. In that sense I am satisfied with the fruits of our labours over three decades ago. The drought puts paid to things like vegetables and flowers. Birds and butterflies are good enough for me and both give me enormous pleasure. I assure you my garden would not garner any human rewards, but even a brown mongoose pops in now and then 🙂
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Your garden scores top marks in my book, Anne. Those Victorian-type gardens I see featured in magazines may be all neat and tidy and oh so pretty, but they’re quite sterile in truth.
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You would be welcome to explore my suburban jungle 🙂
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Careful, I might just accept the invitation and tomorrow when you wake up we’ll be waiting outside for the gates to open! 😀
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No Wild Card required 🙂
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