Sunday, November 11, 2007

Birdlife in my garden today

We have so many birds that come to our garden now, especially now that I regularly replenish the feeder. I tried so hard to get close to a hoepoe to take a photo, but Bradley made too much noise and he flew away.

I've noticed this Glossy Starling quite a lot in the last few weeks. It's one of a pair nesting in a tree in my neighbours garden, and they spend a lot of time in my garden.


And then, excitement!! This afternoon, this stork flew over the garden and landed on another neighbours roof. Beautiful! At least, I think's it some type of stork... it can't be a crane as it doesn't have all the features.


edited: It's a grey heron! LOL! I think I need a bird book or something, my knowledge about birds is scary to say the least! Thanks Max and mom ;)

8 comments:

Schae said...

an actual stork! that is very cool

S-V-H said...

IF I'm right, it looks for me like a BIG BLUE HERON bird....maybe I'm wrong. But he could be a real "copy" of the bird in my post yesterday.(Wiki can solve this problem)
I like the little blue Starling too.:-)

Max-e said...

Cool pics Jenty. I love it when birds come to visit, but do not attract them, because we have two cats.
The second one looks like a grey heron

Fiona's photo a day said...

So pretty Jeanette!!!

Unknown said...

Thanks Max! My mom agrees with you, it's indeed a grey heron!

Unknown said...

i like that first blue one!can't wait to see more of your visitors

Glou said...

Lovely visitors!

Tanja said...

It's so nice having bird life, we too have many visitors. The latest is a Red Breasted Cuckoo though who piet-my-vrous through the night, I wish he would move on :)