WEAVERS - BIRD OF THE MONTH - JUNE & JULY 2014*

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Re: WEAVERS - BIRD OF THE MONTH - JUNE & JULY 2014*

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You would think with so many of them they would be easy to photograph but they never keep still! lol


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:yes: ..was not easy =O:

perched... but flying O-/


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Another one of those tricky weavers. Bill not quite right for Village? At Chobe, Botswana. Thank you.
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Non breeding southern-masked weaver? but the eye colour is the problem. It might be the sun that makes it look so dark -O-
Or a non breeding village weaver.... ;-) Though the bill does not look that big.

Sorry I am not of great help 0*\

Do you have a pic where the back shows?


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Here you go Lisbeth.
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Spotted back, Village Weaver \O


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:yes:


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:-0 that's what I wrote in my notebook \O


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Southern Masked Weaver

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Female Southern Masked Weaver

Seen in the KTP somewhere in the mid Auob, October 2017
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