At a quick glance, you’d easily mistake the Scaly-breasted Munia for a sparrow. Both birds have similar looking brown bodies, but the munia isa little bigger and slightly more elongated than a sparrow. It also has a rather large, conical … Continue reading
The Olive-backed Sunbird is a daily visitor to our garden. Sunbirds tend to travel in pairs – the male with a blue-black bib from the eyes to down the chest, and the female with a full yellow underbelly, and both … Continue reading
The Smyrna kingfisher is one of the sporadic visitors to our garden. One of the last times we saw it was when it was patiently swallowing its meal of a garden lizard, back in March this year. Since then, it’s … Continue reading
A day after two germinating long bean plants were snatched away by birds, another pair of seeds began to break through the soil. This is what probably caught the bird’s eye: The neck of the sprouting stem does kind of … Continue reading