Now who could blame them? Not I, since if that fig tree was anywhere near me they would be gone!
Brilliant photography capturing them in the act! Little white-eye is so shy you are lucky you captured between those large green leaves.
Be sure to enjoy some fruit, ask the birds permission nicely perhaps they will oblige 😆
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Thank you so much! Indeed, I will try. Let us hope that the starlings stay away this year, for it is when they arrive that all of the figs dissappear!
Funny thing, the little white-eyes are used to me so they pose for me and allow me to come real close. It is the mouse-birds that evade my camera. I cannot even move then they fly away. It doesn't help that I have an older camera so the autofocus is a bit slow. When they fly away their chirping sounds like an evil laugh taunting me for they know I want to take photographs! But luckily I got lucky with these.
Thanks again! Let us hope they share some of their figs.
Actually saw about five different starlings over the last couple of months, some a surprise and not regulars.
White-eye here is shy, as are the Mousebirds always on the move managed to capture one or two photographs before they were gone.
Enjoy the figs when/if you get to them.
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.