His mom, never far away sat breathing to cool herself in the hot sun!
Sitting on an old palm tree fruit frond near the dense bush where he was born!
I asked in the previous post if anyone knew what kind of bird this one is.
Again, I will leave the revelation of his specie until the end of this post.
Come and look at this lovely little guy!
This might give you an idea what he is?
Not yet? Try this one below to identify him!
Here he was looking straight at you lol!
"Okay" he said, "nobody wants to know what I am, so I am out of here"!
Yes, the new youngster is a Cape Robin-chat (Cossypha caffra) and he was born here in our garden.
Ironically, his one parent was also born here during the Spring season of last year. Apparently the Robins, Thrushes, Cape White Eyes and Red-collared Sunbirds have been nesting here for many years, but some of the older residents here tell us that the birds have never had it so good with all of the food that Marian feeds them every day!
Here below is a source link where you can read more about these beautiful birds!
"The Cape robin-chat (Cossypha caffra) is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It has a disjunct range from South Sudan to South Africa. The locally familiar and confiding species has colonized and benefited from a range of man-altered habitats, including city suburbs and farmstead woodlots".
"It is an accomplished songster like other robin-chats, but is rather less colorful than most, and frequents either dryer settings or higher altitudes. It forages in the proximity of cover, in the open or in fairly well-lit environments".
"Its distribution resembles that of the karoo–olive complex of thrushes, but it prefers the bracken-briar fringes of Afromontane forest and does not enter far into forest proper. It is altitudinally segregated from the red-capped robin-chat, and is less of a skulker".
Source
And That's All Friends!
Oh! I forget, here is our new Southern Double-collared Sunbird baby!
Something here below to think about!
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Socrates (Philosopher)
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The camera used is a Canon Powershot SX60HS
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