Come and see a little female Red-collared Sunbird drinking nectar and some young Malachite Sunbirds!
We were invited to a farm behind the mountain, as they wanted me to open a police, victim supporters, team building event!
I will post more tomorrow about the event, but after the opening, I took a stroll with my camera on the farm and found more than I expected to find.
Some young Malachite Sunbirds and a few others.
Come and have a look!
This picture below shows the "jungle" on the farm that we visited!
A little Cape White eye doing his nectar thing!
Here we have the first young Malachite and you can see by his blue color and halfway tail that he is still a youngster!
Now look at this one and his tail has just started to grow!
Ah, here is one below with an almost full length tail, but his colors must still develop!
Here he is again and a real beautiful young guy!
Here we have a strange combination. Red-collared Sunbird, female at the top and White Eye below her!
And so it was a day of the youth and there are so many plants bearing nectar flowers on the farm, that the birdlife here is totally amazing.
My most difficult shot was to get a singing youngster on the camera, but luckily this guy below obliged!
Here is a fully colored adult Malachite at this link and also in some of my previous posts!
By Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland - Malachite Sunbird (Nectarinia famosa), CC BY 2.0.
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It was indeed a very good day for us and the bird photos were a bonus, as the people seemed to like our opening of the event.
Birds are beautiful, but the work that the volunteers do in the crime victim support unit of the police is so much more important. It was our honor to participate and I hope that you will visit my post about the event tomorrow!
And That's All Friends!
The birds cannot worry about what happened in the past and they always build for their tomorrows! A lesson for us!
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new”!
Socrates (Philosopher)
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I haven't seen any birds like that in Finland, but hey, I am not much of a birdwatcher either!
are they noisy or quiet birds?
No, you wouldn't as those birds are only found over here.
Interestingly is that they call the Malachite the king of the sunbirds, because he is the biggest of our sunbirds and the best looker. but he only sings one single note. Just one long sharp tweet.
The smallest of the sunbirds is the husband of that tiny grey lady in the first picture. He also has metallic colors and he is the best singer of the sunbirds.
He is called the Southern Red-collared Sunbird and he is my favorite sunbird.
Thank you for the visit and I bid you a good night from South Africa my friend.
The sunbirds are fascinating! To be able to capture them is interesting!
Thank you and yes, they are some of my favorite birds.
There are some tricks in getting them on camera, but I luckily know the tricks my friend.
Hope that your Friday is good and may you have a happy weekend!
You as well, my friend 🥰🌺🤙
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Fabulous photos, Stephen! As always! I am certainly happy that you like to focus your camera on these beautiful Feathered Friends!
Thank you milady.
I hope that you have the MS under control and may you have a good Friday!
Thanks for thinking of me, luv! I'm a bit better today.
Praying for you my dear friend.
Very beautiful birds! Such an unusual iridescent gradient coloring!
Thank you kindly and you have a great description of their metallic colors!
Hope that your Friday is good.
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