This Cape White-eye above is as tame as anything. It usually hangs around with 3 or 4 others. In summer, when the Mulberry trees are at their fullest, these White-eyes, and all the other birds I'm about to mention, don't even notice the apples i put out so I don't even bother. The damn Vervet monkeys come and steal them anyway! We learnt our lesson parking our cars under the trees though. Man those mulberries can give birds the runs. Very hard to clean the windscreens!
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| Crested Barbet |
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| Black Collared Barbet |
We have 2 species of barbets, seen above.The Crested Barbet always comes in pairs. The male constantly trying to show off and dancing around is mate. The Black collared barbet seems to just pass through, eats his fill, and dissapears for weeks.
This is known as an Arrowmarked Babbler. They always come in groups of about 6. They very boisterous and just bombard the tree where I put any fruit, chasing everything else away. Bloody noisy things as well. I guess that's where the "babbler" in the name comes from! Very nosy as well. They often come and sit on our window sill and watch us lying in bed when it's really early.
We have a hell of a lot of Thrushes as well. Above is a Kurrichane Thrush taking a bath just next to the feeding "tree". Along with them, we have Olive Thrush and Groundscraper Thrush. Brilliant birds as they constantly scratching around and demolish all those annoying, pesty bugs in the garden.
Till next time. Keep following because in a couple of weeks I will be blogging about our wedding we will be having in the african bush. Hyenas,cheetahs and elephants to come!!
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