Entertaining life of birds often bring a smile at how they are able to humour us the other side of a lens, this is for Neli on Friday #FeatheredFriends bringing miles of smiles always!
Funny how the vulture, such a big bird chasing across the lawns of the rehab center we visited a couple of years ago, moves are more hopping than walking. Talking to each other in raspy, drawn out hissing sounds, they actually full of character once you see them up close.
In the wild squabbling over food grunting and yapping at each other protecting their piece of the find. One also forgets the endangered Cape Vulture roost together on layered rock cliffs in colonies, so they are actually social for all their display of quibbling for first place here hopping down the slope back to their cages till minded back to good health.
Next:- Upside down or inside out is the golden-tailed woodpecker, knock, knock, knocking on the wood, doesn't he get headaches head bashing like this? This is called feeding time, hammering away at the bark probing and gleaning whatever lays beneath. Not a nest in my garden sadly, must have another tree for refuge when breeding.
Moving in numbers our Cape starling sure kick up a fuss when the berries are ripened take a look at who's not talking! Robust bright plumage uniform glossy green or blue depending on lighting, excitable they definitely know how to communicate, with golden (orange/yellow) eyes ever watchful.
Then we arrive at the yellow fever tree, a favourite of the weaver birds, intelligent, hardworking little birds are these. Fight over territory long before starting nest building in this a tree they so enjoy! After all is said and done they are social, weaving their way right into a special place close to the home where we put seed out, then they swoop in all together gathering up a free meal.
Catching air streams large African woolly-necked storks darting effortlessly directly behind each other similar to fighter pilots on display. Black and purple plumage with white woolly neck on display, hither and tither between rivers fly united.
Going nowhere slowly in one-legged race of the Spoonbill, I'm not a stork nor an ibis kinda like something in between, sexy long legs and gorgeous flattened bill making me unique!
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Thought for Today: "When vultures surround you, try not to die." - African Proverb
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