Beautiful little friend around the garden, did not realize they eat fruit perhaps a little added extra might be flies hovering around or smaller insects attracted to the fruit.
Diving down to the ground to capture video, sound as crazy as few others around here I see 😁
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My thoughts exactly! It was rather funny. I still think that there might have been insects inside of the fruits, like fly larvae.
Indeed! We have to be extreme to capture these acrobats!
Exceptionally shy birds normally in undergrowth, Cape Robin-chat one bird with grey belly feathers 😅
They do apparently enjoy some seed, berries, grains, perhaps will adapt well with some help if you wish to keep them around.
I have been seeing this particular one every morning, eating some of the dates. We have been trying to talk to him every morning as well, and it seems like he is there to stay now! Such a lovely and wonderful bird.
Sounds like you are making inroads with new little friend, would be wonderful to see them stay and raise their young in the neighbourhood. Lovely to wake up to their early song!
Exactly! I have a love-hate relationship with their early morning song though. When I used to work at the bakery, they kept me company at 4am in the morning. When I wake in the morning and hear their song it fills me with a strange feeling of nostalgia and dread for the past. But alas, I am trying to rid myself of those memories!
Perhaps your first town crier to wake everyone up, we have the Hadada normally. When up in the Drakensberg I could not place the Robin call till the owner of the establishment put me right, yes first call in the morning, good alarm clock as well. Memories come in strange guises 😄
That is true. But since then I have made friends with the Robin, so it is all good now.
Oh they and the guineafowls. Nightmares when they start their calls! Throughout the day it is fine, but late at night or early morning is never good.
Sorry for the late reply! Life is so busy again and deadlines! Deadlines never end.