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  1. Vilasy

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    To minimize waste, I make homemade birdseed "bells" (actually blobs) with seed, honey and flour. And, I let whatever has spilled grow. When the plants grow up, they attract almost as many birds. I just make sure the feeders are over an area that I don't mind looking weedy and overgrown. The...
  2. Vilasy

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Had a good day yesterday. Took the dogs down to the river front on the property, and had a few nice sightings. Giant kingfisher, African black duck, reed cormorant, hadeda ibis, some helmeted guinea fowl, clapper lark, and the normal bulbuls, starlings, and chats. The best was a blacksmith...
  3. Vilasy

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    I'd enter the sloth, myself. Stunning photo!
  4. Vilasy

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Yeah, sucks about the view, hey? The compensation is a roughly 150 pounds a month rent. That said, I'm sure my salary is a full tenth of yours. If that. The cape has lovely birds - I don't know them as well as I do those here, but half the time when I find a cool bird in my book, I sigh and...
  5. Vilasy

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Some photos. a cape weaver, a female white breasted sunbird (wish I got her male, he is exquisite) and my pathetic attempt at capturing the mob of african swifts that I was so enchanted by this morning. If you want more garden pictures, I managed to put pictures of the garden and house up at...
  6. Vilasy

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Thanks for thhe welcome! Will try to post some, though I'm having an awful time uploading - reduced to usi my iPad and phone, and they both don't like to post photos, for some reason. It's sure sunny here. And -4 at night! That said, most of my garden is indigenous aloes, to attract the local...
  7. Vilasy

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Having a wonderful morning on the porch. My garden fish pond had it's first ever hammerkop come inspect, four green (red billed) wood hoopoe had a cackling sing along on one tree, lovely purple and green white bellied sunbirds found my flowers, and I caught sight of an African fish eagle soaring...
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