Continuing with my toilet roll seedling experiment. The roots of this butternut seedling have pushed through the damp cardboard and it’s now ready for planting out. Tomato seedlings coming along nicely. Butternut in seed modules. Sunbird visits a Strelizia. One of the chickens may be suffering from what could be Merek’s disease ( a … More Bits n’ Bobs
”Saturation.” White Bellied Sunbird at Strelizia. Photographed yesterday afternoon.
Olive thrush. Female White Bellied Sunbird. Photographed this afternoon. Ark.
White-Bellied Sunbird on Coral Tree. Back garden. Photographed this afternoon. Ark.
Photographed this afternoon. Ark
White bellied sunbird having a wash this afternoon among one the recently watered lemon trees. 15/8/19 Ark
12/08/19 Ark
The sunbirds have been scarce this year, or I have not been as vigilant. Here’s a shot from a while back. White Breasted Sunbird in the Coral Tree. Ark.
Brown-and-yellow fruit chafer (Pachnoda sinuata ) head first in a Peach. Potatoes: If Matt Damon can grow them on Mars, the Ark can have a go in Johannesburg. White Bellied Sunbird in the upper branches of the Acacia tree in the back garden. ”Hiding in the long grass …” Ginger. Summer Downpour. Thyreus on Lavender … More Leading you up the garden path. 10 minutes – 10 shots
White Bellied Sunbird. Ark
When I first started doing a little research on the White Bellied Sunbird a couple of years back I read that one of the places they like to build their nest is in among cacti. ”I’d like to see one build its nest among the devil thorns of the cacti growing at our spot,” thought … More Watch the Birdy. Home building.
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