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Lovely Amoli!! So lucky to see the sunbird and the mousebirds!!! We only get the speckled ones....except for a dead read-faced one I found in the garden once!!

Great mix of birds in your garden Amoli & nice photos.

Thanks,
it does help to fill in the gaps between park visits..

Somehow I managed to lose this thread and for the life of me I could not find it.

Eventually contacted Flutterby who put me in the right direction.

Hi Amoli. What a fantastic birdiful garden you have and your stunning photos to compliment it.

I am still trying to catch the mouse bird, black collared barbet, thrush and a sunbird that flits around every day but he is too fast for me.

Thanks for sharing your garden with us and Joan and I hope that you will continue to do so.

Over the past few weeks I have been in the garden between 08:00 and 10:00 trying to get an assortment of photos of visitors to my feeding tray and garden. I have posted a few pics under "Birds in Flight" and now these will be the static pics.

Burchells coucal.


Black-collared barbet - not a very good pic but the best that I have.


Cape-glossy starling.


Speckled mousebird - at last I have managed to get my first few shots of this very active and elusive bird.




Green wood-hoopoe.


Sunbird- ???????? - Another first taken very quickly. Looking at my bird book this could be the female marico sunbird?


Crested barbet.


Karoo thrush - another first for me.


Two Cape-glossy starlings eyeball a laughing dove.


Next - a family of green wood-hoopoe pay a visit and show off their youngster.

Great pics of your garden birds STF.

The Sunbird looks like an Amethyst with that dark throat.

Thanks Dewi - you could be right.

That's the problem with females - they all look the same.

be polite.... with females

indeed nice serie of birds in your garden

Amoli wrote:For a very brief moment I saw this Sunbird – I think it is a female Scarlet-chested. - It has been confirmed to be an immature male Amythest Sunbird.

steamtrainfan wrote:Sunbird- ???????? - Another first taken very quickly. Looking at my bird book this could be the female marico sunbird?

Seems like the same bird ? How exciting

Touche.