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WOW - Sorry I can't read through 27 pages to your previous post about this bird.

Was this in your centurion garden? It is a West African Tropical bird (like The Gambia) I wonder how it got to SA, maybe it is an escapee from somewhere?

If this has all been answered I am sorry for asking again

JJ

@Lizet - Nice... no plastic flowers to persuade these guys!

Latest this winter for our garden. Southern Boubou. Very confiding and now been around for the whole of the World Cup! He can stay!

Taken through a window before he was a regular!

We've had a Southern Boubou in the garden for at least a year now, though it seems only in winter. Looks like I'm quite close to you Cherries, am next to Linden

Jungle Junkie - the photo was taken in my garden in Wierdapark, Centurion. I have not seen the bird since. If I remember correctly it originates from West Africa.

As I have mentioned before, a couple of years ago this bird featured on 50/50 and the only explanation for it being in Centurion was that it is an escapee.

yesterday... during THE match

an inexperienced mother

Hey guys i just bought a 170-500 Sigma lens and decided to take a walk in the back garden and test out the lens! I came across these two birds and where not to sure what they are so some ID Help would be needed!





Now by the look of its beak it looks like a honey sucking bird as it was a long curved beak! I have no clue what bird this is ! What can i build to attract this bird back in the garden ?

The other bird is :





A good friend of mine said its a Red Bishop!? Iv never seen this bird before so i was really happy to see this one

enjoy and thanks

Hi Massimo,

Your first bird is a White-bellied Sunbird - curved bill, white belly, irridescent green/blue sheen on wing and dark chest.

The second bird is a Red-headed Finch - Red head, white tips to the wing and underpart feathers. The head will become much brighter in Spring/Summer.

I'm not sure how best to attract Sunbirds to your garden, but planting flowers that they like is a good bet. Maybe someone else can help you out with that question.

Hope this helps.

are they common in the gauteng region these birds

Hi Massimo,

I'm only a visitor to the region, but both birds are regular species to my friends garden in Centurion in Winter at least. Think they are fairly common species for the Gauteng area.

Thanks for the reply! hope to see them alot in my garden in the near future !!

I found this dead bird on my balcony.... when I come back from birding



I don't know the name... it seems a first to me

I don't know what happend...

Hi Anne-marie,

Possibly an Icterine Warbler? Looks yellow enough underneath.

Think it has flown into a window, happens quite a lot sadly.

This year we had a mated pair of Northern Cardinals in the neighborhood, and they frequented our bird feeders, one at a time, while they had young in their nest. Once the youngsters could fly, their parents would escort them to our garden. Instead of eating seed, mom and dad would pluck tiny growing limes from our lime tree and feed them to their babies. (I think I have pics somewhere)

Mrs. Stark enjoyed the show, but our lime harvest this year was very light.

Last week, I had a Wooly-necked Stork foraging on the bank directly behind our unit.
I have seen them flying around the neighbourhood before but never right in the garden.

Also had 3 Great White Pelicans flying around in a nice thermal.

thanks Barcud
poor little bird