Some lovely birds today.

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But first I want to show you two macro's of another beauty.
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The metallic bronze colors of this tiny "Geranium Bronze" butterfly were too beautiful not to show you.

Yes, we are into birds at #featheredfriends, but my eyes are also not closed to other beauties.
So I will call the first two photos an interlude and then continue with some birds that you might like.
Let's have a look.

The Geranium Bronze specie name is (Cacyreus marshalli) and this particular specie is known as "Dickson's Geranium Bronze (C.dicksoni)
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Right, now for the birds and this was a Hadeda Ibis landing at a water feature.
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Here was the landing of the mate. Hadeda Ibis (Bostrychia hagedash"
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This female Cape Weaver was inspecting her lucky find.
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Oh yes, it tasted very good. Funny that they name this bird's song as a "hysterical call". Cape Weaver (Ploceus capensis)
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One of my new favorites, the "White backed Mousebird" (Colius colius) having a go at a flower of a Bottle brush tree.
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Finally see if you can identify the 4 species of birds in this photo below. This photo was taken in our garden.
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Let me help you. At the back is a "Speckled Pigeon" (Columba guinea), then below him is a "Laughing dove" (Spilopelia senegalensis). In the middle is a little "Cape Sparrow" (Passer melanurus) and at the right are 5 "Cape turtle, ring-necked" doves.

And so I hope that you have enjoyed this post as I put some work into it to identify all of the bird species for you.
On occasions many other species also fly into the garden to grab a piece of the special bread that we feed them, but they are grabbers and flyers (hit and run artists), as they don't stay.

And That's All Friends!

Note:

The "Geranium Bronze" specie information was gained from our book called "Gardening for Butterflies"
ISBN 978-1-77584-124-1

All bird species information gathered from our bird book.
"Sasol Birds of Southern Africa. ISBN 978-1-77584-668-0

Photos taken by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60HS Bridge camera.

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Cape Weaver are looks a little house sparrows. You have done a lot of beautiful bird photography. Looking at one of the last photographs, it looks like a bird fair. Butterfly photography has also been great.

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Your photography of birds are so nice, particularly butterfly is so cute in looking with sweet colors.

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Smallish butterfly with dazzling colour, endemic to our country, apparently a pest in parts of Europe when introduced overseas, perhaps best is to keep them where they belong.

Birds all beautiful and extremely busy at the moment, garden life is like a highway with movement, many lesser-striped swallows at the beach this morning.

My luck..., a yellow-billed kite landed twenty foot from where I stood, unable to snap away as usual taking my late brothers little dog on a beach walk with Woody this morning.

Have a great weekend.
!LUV to Cape family.
!WINE

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Oh yes, I saw that they were regarded as pests in other parts of the world and it is certainly a folly to introduce any specie of insect, bird or animal out of their endemic countries.

Oak trees were brought here, then squirrels to eat the fruits of the oaks and now we have Borer Beetles from South America that are killing off the oak trees. Doesn't make any sense.

Oh yes, early summer is the time to feed the youngsters and to teach them how to feed on their own.
A Swallow means rain and you must he happy to see them.

Hahaha, I call these mishaps as meaning "for your eyes only" and it is always a dreaded feeling.

!LUV also to you guys.

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Some get across on logs floating across or ships, when purposely introduced, stupidity we now have many that should not be here in all species.

Slowly noticing different life appearing since growing indigenous only it really has helped.

Life is good if we look to the positive, hang in with a smile and take one day at a time.

!LUV
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Yes, the natural transport sequence one can understand, but like you said deliberately introduced is sheer stupidity. The infestations have vastly increased as of late and one can only wonder if the weather has something to do with it.

Once were are 90% back to indigenous, the landscapes will show a real difference.

Positivity is real medicine for one's mind and soul Lady Joan.

!LUV
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Weather has definitely changed which affects everything, human interference plays a bigger upheaval with wildlife. Signed another petition yesterday with uitlanders wanting to rape our land Wildcoast-Shell so damned annoying we fighting on every front of late!

It is is not one lot it is another if no on sea it is on the land... accompanying video...

Keep smiling and keep fighting for good!

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So that last photo i can see a single sparrow, the rest being doves, except for the other one, looks to be some kind of pigeon.
There also seem to be a much smaller dove, perhaps a young one who just started getting a more adult plummage

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I love the first butterfly most, it shines even golden - lovely 😍

It's always so nice to see you feeding the many kinds of birds which visit you in your garden. Wishing you a wonderful Sunday, Zac 🌞

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When I first saw the golden colors on that little butterfly I thought that it was some kind of trick Hannes.
Then I hurriedly switched to "macro" and hoped that I would not scare him as I moved closer, praying all of the time that he will not suddenly take off. Bang! I got two shots of him and that was enough for me 🙏

Thank you and those are only some of the birds my friend. 20 of those doves can pitch up at any time depending on how hungry they are 🤣

!Cheers and thanks.

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You're always so lucky, my friend, but of course I know that your eyes are much, much better trained for the insects and birds 😀

20 doves at once? That's like here where they search for food too, of course, but foremost they seem to use our cars as toilet 🤣

!PIZZA and !BEER - sounds like a nice dinner :)
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Just luck my friend but thank you for the compliment 😘

Hahaha, Harry and Sally did the same before I replaced the car port roof. The wet green poop splatted all over the car's roof and ran down the windows.
It was like they have baptized the car 🤣

Now the car is very happy as nothing poops on it's roof anymore 🤣

Cheers and thanks.

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I am very sorry but I think I have no more !LOLZ left although I would have needed one now because I have just imagined your car with all this poop running down 🤣

!PIZZA and !BEER - sounds like a nice dinner :)
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Hahaha, I am also prepared to take a gamble with !LOLS as you would have laughed yourself silly if you saw the car with all of that green stinky stuff on it.
The geese don't poop, they splat 🤣🤣🤣

Cheers and thanks.

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Oh, I believe you, I can see it when I close my eyes - green slime is running all over the car 😂 !LOLZ

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It's not the slime so much on the windscreen, but the smell Hannes.
A smell like the fresh dung of 500 Camels that have diarrhea 🤣 !LOLZ

Cheers and thanks.

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That wouldn't bother me at the moment because I still don't smell everything after I have had the virus. Especially sharp or bad smells are not half as bad as they were before, and I like it somehow, especially when I go to the toilet at work 😂 !LOLZ

!PIZZA and !BEER - sounds like a nice dinner :)
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We got a bit of a shock today Hannes, as our gas geyser has some setting problems and I phoned the guy that installed it. After a time of ringing his wife answered the phone and told me that he died from Covid a few months ago.

So count yourself lucky that you have survived and it sounds like you love the loss of your sense of smell, especially in a public toilet 🤣🤣🤣!LOLZ

Cheers and thanks.

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Oh, that's bad - I know that many people died from the virus and I am glad that no one I know has died yet from it.

Yep, I can smell some smells, but in toilets still not very much, but that depends on the person who was there before me 🤣 !LOLZ

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Not here as most families have lost members to Covid.
But then again, most families including us have been affected by crime, so the world is taking it's revenge.

Hahaha, nope this one is too strongish smelling for me to comment 🤣

Cheers and thanks.

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I believe this virus has grown because of our bad and careless behaviour in this world. So I agree, the world is taking revenge.

I don't even want to read such a comment - I might even smell it 🤣

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Just heard on the news that 15 countries have banned flights from South Africa due to the new variant of the virus that is striking us here now. Very bad news for our hospitality and tourism businesses, especially now over the annual holiday period 😥

Hahaha, I also thought that you might smell it 🤣

Cheers and thanks.

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We are also on the red list in Germany. Next week Germany might be on our red list and we will be green again. This situation affects us all and the whole world should stick together to fight it, but as everything it is all about the money.

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Totally unfair Hannes. Our great scientists discovered the virus and they reported it to the World Health Organization. Now everyone is blocking flights to our country, but it is already in their countries. Our holiday season is due to start and now no tourists will arrive here, so we might as well close down.
A very sad state of affairs as many stand to lose their jobs this Christmas 😥

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I have read that and I agree with you, Zac. Who knows how many other mutations are around and no one has discovered them yet. This virus is upsetting and turmoil the whole world - there's no end in sight, and it's sad, as you say.

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