Week 20 - Garden Birds

With all the activities on the go, the only birding I was sure to get was garden birding. This week didn't produce anything special except a Black-collared Barbet with odd colouring. The migrants have left and the Ovambo Sparrowhawk hasn't been seen since the 24th April when it flew in under the patio after a young dove!




Black-collared Barbet with pinky yellow colouring
instead of the normal bright red!

 The resident Cape Robin was again available for model work for the normal fee of a few meal worms!



Cape Robin-Chat (2)


Cape White-eys are also common in the garden but are not always easy to photograph as they don't sit still for a second!!



Cape White-eye


Another common resident is the Crested Barbet, people have reported that in their gardens the Black-collared Barbets are more dominant and scare off the Crested Barbets quite easily but in our garden things are different. The Crested Barbets are king and the Black-collareds always give way at the feeder when they appear!



Crested Barbet wrestling with a piece of apple skin




Crested Barbet


Well thats all I can report for this week, hopefully there will be more exciting things to see and read next week.