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Little_things
Bloemfontein
(South Africa)
(Zone 9a)
June 30, 2008
7:19 AM Post #5181219
| Love this pic...nice close-up of speckled pigeon 
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Little_things
Bloemfontein
(South Africa)
(Zone 9a)
June 30, 2008
7:21 AM Post #5181223
| Cape robin-chat...unfortunately I could not get a better pic of this beautifull bird. 
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Little_things
Bloemfontein
(South Africa)
(Zone 9a)
June 30, 2008
7:22 AM Post #5181226
| Cape sparrow - very common around houses 
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Little_things
Bloemfontein
(South Africa)
(Zone 9a)
June 30, 2008
7:23 AM Post #5181230
| This is a female fiscal shrike, brown marking...hopefully I can get a nice pic when they nest again 
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Little_things
Bloemfontein
(South Africa)
(Zone 9a)
June 30, 2008
7:26 AM Post #5181236
| I think this is the cape white-eye (small, fast-moving bird). I cannot see enough to say its the orange-river white-eye, that looks the same, but for orange tinge on the flanks 
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Little_things
Bloemfontein
(South Africa)
(Zone 9a)
June 30, 2008
7:28 AM Post #5181244
| Wattled starling - non-breeding (male)...they are here to feed on the fruits of the buffalo-thorn tree. 
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Little_things
Bloemfontein
(South Africa)
(Zone 9a)
June 30, 2008
7:30 AM Post #5181247
| Another pic in the tree...once the fruit is gone, they are too! 
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pelletory
Marlton, NJ
June 30, 2008
7:43 AM Post #5181295
| Great pics Little! I love the robin-chat!
Thanks so much for sharing these with us! |
Little_things
Bloemfontein
(South Africa)
(Zone 9a)
June 30, 2008
9:02 AM Post #5181602
| I found daddy...male fiscal shrike - note no brown on flanks 
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Little_things
Bloemfontein
(South Africa)
(Zone 9a)
June 30, 2008
9:04 AM Post #5181611
| another wattled starling - in breeding they are very very interesting...these are still not. 
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Little_things
Bloemfontein
(South Africa)
(Zone 9a)
June 30, 2008
9:07 AM Post #5181620
| Hadeda Ibis...awfull sound, they breed here and wake us up in the morning. They call to each other and once that starts, it takes a while to quiet down! 
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Resin
Northumberland
(United Kingdom)
(Zone 9a)
June 30, 2008
9:23 AM Post #5181702
| Like the Fiscal Shrike, smart bird. Looking in my shrikes book (Lefranc & Worfolk, A Guide to the Shrikes of the World), the narrow white eyebrow suggests it is intermediate between collaris (southern & eastern South Africa; all-black head) and subcoronatus (northwestern South Africa, Namibia, Botswana; broad white eyebrow). On their map, Bloemfontein looks to be about on the dividing line of the two subspecies.
Resin
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MargaretK
PERTH
(Australia)
June 30, 2008
11:28 AM Post #5182250
| Great birds, Little_things. The Cape White-eye looks very similar to out Silver-eye, Zosterops something-or-the-other. Resin? |
Resin
Northumberland
(United Kingdom)
(Zone 9a)
June 30, 2008
1:16 PM Post #5182789
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| Quoted: | | The Cape White-eye looks very similar to out Silver-eye, Zosterops something-or-the-other |
Yep, same genus.
Resin
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Little_things
Bloemfontein
(South Africa)
(Zone 9a)
June 30, 2008
2:00 PM Post #5183025
| resin - I think it's subcoronatus,but there is also aridicolus (might be further north however) with the same white brow.
They are, I agree totally, very interesting birds. |
Resin
Northumberland
(United Kingdom)
(Zone 9a)
July 1, 2008
9:18 AM Post #5186986
| Thanks!
Do you see many Lesser Grey Shrikes as well? Had one of these this spring, in Britain it is a rare vagrant from its southeast European breeding area, but it migrates to South Africa for the (northern hemisphere) winter, should be down your way November to March.
Resin
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pelletory
Marlton, NJ
July 1, 2008
9:23 AM Post #5187020
| Nice pic Resin! |
