Africa Wild

On Wednesday morning about 6 green wood-hoopes came to visit and to top it all they brought their youngster with to introduce him to us. The following pics need no introduction.



















Ok - that is the end of the show.


Next - a very rare visitor to my feeder tray - only the second time I have seen one.

Wow, such a variety STF!!!

beautiful

Lovely

I have them in my garden - but they hide..

Flutterby wrote:Wow, such a variety STF!!!

Yes Flutterby, we are very blessed to have such a variety of our feathered friends popping in now and again.

nan wrote:beautiful

Thanks very much nan.

Amoli wrote:Lovely

I have them in my garden - but they hide..

Thanks Amoli. They do tend to be very very shy. If I try to move an inch closer they fly away.

On Thursday a couple of African Grey Hornbills came in for breakfast. We have only seen one once before and that was a juvenile and only managed a hurried shot.

A dove comes in to check out the new kid on the block.


Wondering what all the fuss is about.








And then along came a dove and started giving the hornbill a hard time........


....so he headed for the shelter of a tree. Note the dove watching him from above.


Is it safe to come out now?????


That's it for now from our garden.

Would love to have some of them in our garden!!

You are so right Flutterby. It is indeed a privilege to have had them visit. I just love their shrill "Pheeeeeew" call.

Some more pics from my garden.


A karoo thrush in our red berry tree.






A speckled face mouse-bird in the same tree.


A speckled face mouse-bird having a sand bath very late in the afternoon. The light was very bad and I had to set the camera on 1000 ASA and 1/400 which resulted in rather grainy and slightly out of focus pictures but still an unusual record for me.








That's all for now.