Backyard wildlife

[Mel]

Sorry for the sparrows, but that comment was just hilarious

[H. erectus]

In the course of every ordinary day found myself questioning
unusual bird behavior. They prompt me, as would our feathered
friends usually do!

Found the feathered ones doing their antics so as to call for due
participation in a rather alarming situation,...Snake at hand!!!

Sure as all sheit it was there, the beginning of a day filled with
lifers. A common terminology within the birding fraternity.

I stumbled across a huge rinkhals in my search, however in doing
so there was a bird call ever piercing in days gone by.

Recognizing a bird once off, called a lifer in ones own book,..
besides the snake, found self staring at a greater spotted Cuckoo!!

Perhaps the cuckoo, just perhaps, chirping a message of goodness
over the back of a snake, questionable??

It was a good day in my yard at the back, where all animals are
allowed free and was blessed with another lifer, another grand
daughter. It was a good day.

Shoiee Rinky, are we partners in all good crime??,..

[Richprins]

Well done, H.!

[Flutterby]

Nice one H.e.

[Mel]

You should never leave your house without your camera

[Dewi]

Nice one H. Cool birds to see.

[okie]

Had a 1.56 meter cape cobra here today --- he committed suicide

[Lisbeth]

Somebody helped him?

[okie]

Yeaahh .... I suppose you could say that

I am raising a batch of 137 ( now only 134 ) chickens - hatched 10 days ago , and somehow he got into the room where I am raising the chicks
When he was discovered in the room with the chicks , there were already two dead ( snakebitten ) , and another one had already been swallowed
He regurgitated this chicken while being coerced into the next world .
Length , measured a full 156 centimeters which the biggest one I have ever seen

[Lisbeth]

Luck that he committed suicide after only 3 chicks