A very interesting garden @joanstewart with all your little animals of which some I would not like to meet either. It is also an eye opener to sit and look at the garden for a while to actually see the activity taking place with the butterflies, wasps, dragon flies and birds etc. They are very restful and entraining at the same time. But, I have never seen a Pin-Tailed Whydah Bird. Are there many in South Africa?
Unfortunately snakes and rats are part of nature and I often think when I am knee deep in the plants of snakes. So for that reason I put on my long walking trousers and walking boots just in case.
I really thought the net-casting spider was a heap of sticks! Never would I imagine that it was actually a spider.
Always something going on, I never think of protection in the garden with snakes normally watch where I walk and put my hands.
First time I have seen this spider, don't usually touch, except in this case now picking up the spider thinking it was dental floss I had twisted up to throw in the bin reminder to self, wear you glasses.
Pin-tailed whydah is sub-Saharan Africa little song bird, he dresses up and takes over the garden chasing everything away during mating season. We see them in different parts of the country, this is the first couple of years I have had him ruling my garden during courtship season.
Africa boasts a good variety of long-tailed birds, widow bird species, whydah birds, wood hoopoes, mousebirds, sugarbirds one never knows where or when you may see them.
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Does the Pin-tailed whydah sing during this mating season?
And yes, wearing glasses is always a good idea but I put them down when thinking of something and forget where they are, which means there is a time wasted looking for them, damn😊
Pin-tail has a cheeky chirp throughout the mating season, we hear him from sunrise to sunset, he really has stamina!
Glasses hang around my neck all day, night time I never wear them, not working on the computer or camera normally, was very excited to learn from fellow SA that this is a rare sighting.
I have heard and seen videos on this type of spider in Australia, look out and you may have luck seeing one over there.
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