Same here. Or only two. The common one, or European one with all the white spots, and then the one that has that blue shine, or if I am correct, the Cape Starling.
You are lucky! I only managed to capture on photograph the mousebird two times. The white eyes always come in flocks at different times of the day. So if I scare one flock, I can capture the others.
Sorry for the late reply! All the fig watching you know 🤣
Never witnessed flocks of white eye, do have small flocks at sunset low flying but too fast to capture, so not sure what they are.
Back to the figs keep watching perhaps you will get a few to eat!
I ate the first ones! But it was something like 35 C today so I had to cool them off 🤣 so unfortunately not from tree-to-mouth but close enough.
We have big trees in the area so they flock together here. And I have a tree that makes lovely berries for them so they flock to that one. I just need to have my camera ready. And funny enough, they love the big palm trees. There are various worms they feast on. I will attach a photograph I uploaded on here a while ago:
Bird melts into the green, nice capture with evidence of enjoying worms. Birds are hyperactive in the heat at the moment, enjoy some chilled figs or get up very early 😆
I managed to pick a whole bowl! And the breeze helped cool them down a bit. Shame yes, poor birds in this heat! I try to put some water out.
Birds have a small pond to bathe in here, heat has been unbelievable one has to help the animals as well. Glad you got to enjoy some of the figs.
Indeed! I always worry in this heat about them. Plus, we had some nasty wild fires that destroyed almost half of the mountain. I feel so bad for the wildlife that suffered. Nature is really cruel.
Wildlife definitely taking a knock with wildfires, birds here just disappear around 10am return at 4pm.
Nature is cruel, last fires from lightning I believe not humans for a change.