So, you want to see some birds.

Well, I have two bird species to show you in here, and our little song meister is first up.

The little Southern Double-collared sunbird (Cinnyris chalebeus) never sits for long, and this guy, true to form, sang a song, sipped some nectar, and another song, before he took off.

I think that he wanted me to be impressed by his melodious tunes, as he was watching me all of the time. So, before I could ask for an encore, he was gone. I took all of the photos in here from our front garden, and we planted some different colored honey-suckle plants in wooden pots with high trestles behind the pots. I designed the trestles to form a barrier for the plants in order to protect them from being damaged by our regular strong wind gusts.

He took a breather to have a look if I was impressed.

And then he let rip with a full breasted rock number, titled "In a Gadda da vida" by the Iron Butterfly band.

I used a squirrel here as a line break, with a granadilla fruit that it was eating.

It is so cute to watch how they eat a granadilla fruit. First, they make a big hole in it, and then they stick their heads inside to eat the sweet interior out.

Okay, now let me show you the second bird specie that appeared after the first one left.

It was a little Cape White Eye (Zosterops vires), that also came to search for some nectar.

Just a pity that this one is not a singer like the one above. They only have a single tone.

Almost masked, as it probed in the flower here.

What I like is that the birds know about my presence, as over time they have become used to me, and as long as I don't come close to them, then all is good. Birds are intelligent and the smaller that they are, the more nervous they become, as there are many predators around. We try to keep our garden as secure as possible, and I suppose that they have seen me chase some stray house cats out of the garden. Another problem is that the doves also chase the little birds around, but we don't interfere, as nature has its own way to sort things out. We keep the garden similar to the natural surroundings, and it works well, as some birds even nest in our granadilla fence. So, if the garden is natural, then the wildlife is comfortable.
Such is life.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.

Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.

Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.

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