Very concerned parents here.

The sunbird baby was out of the nest and in the tree.
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But somebody else was also in the tree as you can see above and he wasn't a sunbird.

The forced power cuts over here are slowly threatening to drive me insane.
On Saturday we were warned about an impending power cut, so we duly switched everything off and waited, but nothing happened.
On Sunday it was the same thing and again we had no powercut. So today we decided to ignore the power cut warning and it happened.
We were only switched back on a half an hour ago.
But let's have a look at the imposter here.

He is a White-backed Mousebird, the same one that I was so glad to get on my camera a couple of days ago in another tree.
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The dad was flitting all round with his excited little cheeps.
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And the mom was just as concerned, also flitting around.
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But this guy was not too concerned and he just continued to eat from the Bottlebrush flowers.
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The dad eventually sat and looked at me.
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In a pleading way he said, "Please come on then, please come and help to get this stranger away".
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And of course I got the stranger away, as I walked to the tree, whistled loudly, and banged the tree with my hand. Bang! The mousebird was gone and peace reigned again.
I saw today that the sunbirds have now moved their baby into another tree further back behind the Bottlebrush tree.
Very clever, as it is not a seed-bearing tree, and nothing in there for the mousebird to eat.
So the sunbird baby is safe for now, and we only need to keep an eye on the cats in the complex.

And That's All Friends.

Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.

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You have told about this before, but now we have the whole story including photos - great 😀
Just a question: would the Mousebird have been a danger to the Sunbirds? You know I have no idea Zac 😎

It seems they are doing it on purpose, but that can't be, or can it. I think they calculate and think the powercut is needed but then they find out that it isn't and just don't tell anybody. That's really annoying I completely agree with you.


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Good evening Hannes,

Yeah, I decided to complete the story.
Nope, the mousebird is a seed and fruit eater, but he could hurt the baby if it gets in his way.

Just miscommunications methinks.
They are in a shambles and the idea that they should shut the old coal power plants down and rather concentrate on green energy generation like windmill farms is not very popular.
Too many have big investments in coal mines and if the old systems are shut down, they will lose everything.
So they rather struggle along with old powerstations that is long past their liftime designs.

And in the meantime we all struggle, as the electricity prices continue to increase.

Cheers and thanks.

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Good evening Zac,

okay, so the Sunbirds are just taking too much care of their baby, like many human parents do, but the Sunbirds know why they do that, of course.

It's always about the money - earn as much as you can even if you don't need it. They should agree to earn less for a while and invest that money in renovating the systems and in green energy, but that's no option, I believe.


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Good evening Hannes,

The sunbird parents how all humans should care for their babies. First, place them in a secure home out of harms way. Second, feed love and care for them and Three later when the babies are adults the parents will know what why they did that when their children look after their old parents.
Over here they dump new born babies into trash cans.

This country is in big trouble with all of the corruption that's going on and the reports in the media makes for very sad reading.

Cheers and thanks.

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Good evening Zac,

your reply began so nice and ended so sad.

Yes, we could learn so much from the animals, but we don't, because we think we know it better, because we think we are better.


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Good evening Hannes,

Sorry that I ended said, but as you know, I write from my heart.

That is exactly our problem as we refuse to learn under the false impression that we are superior beings.
Yet we are just as frail as a sparrow.

Cheers and thanks.

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Good evening Zac,

yes, I know you write from your heart ... and I write what I think in the moment when I write it.

We haven't learned it in thousands of years. or better said we have forgotten what we have known tousands of years ago.


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Hello Hannes, so yet another day is near it's end and I hope that you had a good one,

If I have to write what I think, I will at times be locked up 🤣

Yes, I agree and we simply contnue to forget so much more.
Never to our benefit.

Cheers and thanks.

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Good evening Zac,

I'm still at work till tomorrow morning, but it was a quiet and easy day so far :)

Okay, I have to admit that I don't write everything I am thinking, but most 😉

We forget because we are ignorant - life could be so much easier.


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Good evening Hannes,

I think as long as the days are easy then it is good for you 😉

Hahaha, yes, I saw that at times you write from your heart and the rest is just worldly stuff 🤣

Ignorant, lazy, enitled and demanding Hannes.

Cheers and thanks.

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Good evening Zac,

yep, so easy that I fall asleep and tomorrow that will going to happen for sure 😴

Correct and
correct 👍


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Good evening Hannes,

Just so as you know, I don't really think that you ever fall into a deep sleep at work 😉
Maybe a catnap every now and then, but never a level 3 sleep.

Cheers and thanks.

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Good evening Zac,
well, today I didn't even fall asleep and that means I have had enough to do during the day and if tonight is quiet I will certainly have a level 10 sleep 🤣


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Would the mousebird hurt the baby? Or was he just a nuisance?

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No, the baby can only get hurt if it is in the mousebird's way. But the sunbird parents chase all birds out of their tree.

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Oh, so he was just a little nuisance :) I hope he stays close by. He somewhat reminds me of a cockatiel.

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That was the one bird that I thought that I would never get as I have photos of all of the other mousebird species. This paticular one lives in the dry and arid far west of our country.
But maybe there was no food and that's why he is down here.

Yes, he is very cockatiel like.

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