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Thanx Rosemary H and Bushguy!

Just one more question - can the Tilapia be put in the pond together with the surviving comets and 3 Koi?

I would be over the moon to have an owl in my garden!! Lately there are a lot of pied crows around - have never seen so many in all the years staying in Wierdapark.

Oh and by the way - who remembers the Turaco-like bird with the lemon-coloured beak featured on 50/50 a couple of years back? It was photographed in Wierdapark and identified as an escapee - a Western Grey Plantain Eater native to tropical West-Africa. Well it is still around - lately a regular visitor to my feeding table! Quite amazing!

Naomi- Not sure what a comet is, but I wouldn't think the koi would be a problem. It is quite important to give them a hiding place, under a rock or at least some foliage. I had rock ledges built into the pond so they can hide under those.

Sorry Naomi, forgot to say :ask the people at the aquarium about mixing the fish. They are very knowlegable and helpfull.

BG

Thanx again Bushguy!

A comet is a kind of goldfish. I have a lot of plants in the pond but as the waterlilies die down in winter, places to hide were fewer.

Will definitely pay the aquarium a visit as soon as possible!

Probably not most interesting, but we've got black sunbirds nesting in the garden! Saw them today in the one tree (huge fir-type, never yet went to the effort to find out exactly what it is), must be about 10 meters up! So unfortunately, with them being so high, we can't see them all the clearly, but we'll take a look now to try and see what they do.

Enjoy these sunbirds. Very pretty to watch particularly when the sunshines on their throats. Think now called Amethyst Sunbirds - those name changes...

Have some caps for you!!!!

Had a Diderick Cuckoo calling in the garden yesterday morning at 05hoo, and on thursday last week the Burchells coucal was calling at our bedroom window too .The Mountain Wheatear also still visits daily

The answer has got to be White-tailed Sea Eagle, but then my garden is in Sweden.

Johan

I live opposite Delta Park in Johannesburg (one of the biggest parks in the city), so we have some interesting visitors from time to time:

Spotted Eagle Owls
Guinea Fowl
Woodlands Kingfisher

most recently we've had Southern Boubou, which I thought quite strange.

Redbilled Woodhoopoe for the first time in 23 years since moving hereto Welkom. Every summer a pair of Greater Striped Swallows return to their clay nest under my stoep

My inlaws in Pta north have a pair of egyptian geese from time to time come to visit,funny thing is , when the coast is clear(dogs in the house) you'll find them having a ball in the swimming pool

Hi bird lovers!

What are your favourite/special garden birds in your neck of the woods?Here in Pretoria East I have been visited by some very special birds:
Greyheaded Bush Shrike
Cut-throat Finch
Southern Boubou
Thickbilled Weaver
Bronze Mannikin
WOODLAND'S KINGFISHER (phewww, almost forgot this special one)
Would love to read what were your favourite visitors.

Well, I live in Primrose Germiston and special birds that have visited us are :-

White Fronted Bee-eaters ( a group of 14 for 3 consecutive years now ).
A Cardinal woodpecker once
A Malachite Kingfisher devoured all our fingerling goldfish babies last September.
A tawny flanked prinia nested in our garden two years ago.

But my favourite is still the good old wagtail. So casual, so brave.

Roger the Dodger

Not much out here in Krugersdorp but I've planted my garden full of indigenous shrubs and trees of the area, hopefully in a few years time...

But we've had the odd interesting visitor, we had a Greyheaded bushrike passing through about a week ago. We also have a pair of spotted eagle owls nesting somewhere in the area, we often hear them at night.

We also sometimes have the black eagles from Walter Sisulu gardens passing overhead (we're a few kms away as the crow (or in this case the eagle ) flies).

I really need to get some water and more feeders up to attract more birds...

Oh yes, my favourite garden birds are the barbets, crested and black-collared. I just love the BCB's call!