RE: Birdlife in the wild.

avatar

You are viewing a single comment's thread:

Those sugarbirds are beautiful! We have never had them here. Only the little short tailed sunbird. So delicate. So striking. That moment you captured with the watching sugarbird and the bulbuls is excellent @papilloncharity

0
0
0.000
10 comments
avatar

Thank you my friend, if you plant some Protea bushes there they will come for sure.
My father in law planted a protea in Johannesburg in their garden that grew into a tree and they have many sunbirds there.

Do you know what specie your short tailed sunbird is?
Maybe the "Orange Breasted", or the "Double-collared" ones?

Cheers and !BEER

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Hi Zac! Ummm....can I send you a photo? I'm not so clued up with birds. Planting proteas is a brilliant idea! For the first time this year we actually have butterflies back so maybe that little elusive sugarbird can be lurred in

IMG_3219.JPG

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Ah! So you have the king of the sunbirds there my friend. That is the Malachite (Nectarinia famosa) that I was talking about. May you had a suspicion of what it is?

We also have a heap of butterflies around, mainly Painted Ladies and the White Cabbage ones.

I am going to use this painted lady shot in a post, so you are the first to see it.
246.jpg

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

She is beautiful! Thank you for sharing with me! No. I didn't actually know that. Now I do! We sometimes have the Malachite Kingfisher diving fish out of our dam - also a cormorant. Although they are too shy for my camera. S

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Hi S,
Thank you and yes, the Malachite Kingfisher is indeed a beauty. Best way to get them is watch where they often sit and the times that they are at the dam. Then you find a hidden spot with a clear view and wait there for them. Will maybe take an hour or two, but sooner or later you will get nice shots of him.

Well worth the wait, as you might even get him with a fish in his beak.

Cheers and !BEER

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Yes....well......ummmm....my life is not exactly conducive to 5 minutes alone time let alone an hour or two! Everyone jokes about any new project I need to do must be fitted in between 2 and 3 AM. But maybe I'll manage to sneak up on King Fisher

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Hahaha, well put and as they say, our time is not our own.
Please just don't let your project between 2 and 3am be to get a Kingfisher on camera, as they don't pose for shots during those specific hours. May if you are lucky you could get an owl or two 🤣

Cheers and !BEER

0
0
0.000
Reply