Happy Bird Watching / Show me A photo Contest Round 59

Hello my fellow "Bird Watchers"
I'm so glad I came across this awesome community "Feathered Friends".

Being a bird lover and privileged to have some beautiful birds of varies sizes and species occupy my garden here in sunny Durban Kwa Zulu Natal South Africa; I would love to share my entry of this amazing "African Olive Sun Bird" which is my entry "Show me a Photo Contest round 59", with this lovely community of bird lovers, as the saying goes "Birds of a feather flock together" not so.

Olive Sun Bird

Awhile back, this little "Olive Sun Bird" had got caught in our green house and couldn't escape, so my hubby had to rescue it before my Labradors got a hold of this beautiful specie of bird.

The "Olive Sun Bird" is an indigenous bird to South Africa, their wings are short and rounded so they're able to hover over a plant to feed from the nectar of the flower, their bills are curved and have a tubular tongue adapted specially for sucking the nectar from a plant or flower; they are approximately 15 cm long and weigh around 7-8g, surviving mainly on nectar.
The Sun Birds prefer forested regions, we're blessed with quite a large garden with areas of dense foliage and lots of trees which attracts many species of birds.
The male Sun Bird is purple in color as the one in the photo, the female is a creamish-golden color with a brownish top, quite different to the male.
After taking the photo, we let him go, he was very tired from trying to escape out of the green house, we don't know how long he'd been there, poor little thing, all was well with him as he flew off into the distance.
Wish I'd taken a photo of him flying off, we were so excited with the fact that he was fine and didn't come to any harm.
Oh well.... just didn't think of it at the time.

African Goshawk

This African Goshawk was another rescue bird who seemed to like my green house, we have since tightly secured the holes where these birds are getting in.
They become very stressed when trying to escape, very disturbing for me, I don't like seeing a bird trapped in any situation.
The Goshawk is also indigenous to South Africa, they are birds of pray.
This one in the photo is also a male and has a wing span of 172-225mm, the weight of a male Goshawk is between 150-340g,females are slightly larger than a male, their wing span is 1.7 times her total length.
The African Goshawk feeds mainly on other small birds and small reptiles, moths and termites are also part of their diet.

African Weaver Birds

These little African Weaver birds are very common through out South Africa; they can live up to 15 years. Their diet consists of nectar, insects and seeds.
These little beauties come to my feeding table laid with white cooked rice, which is set at my back entrance to the kitchen.
If I'm at all late with putting the rice out for them, I get quite a loud chirping at, its as if they're scolding me for being late with their dinner. "How dare I be late", Lol!.
We have so many different species of birds that I would love to share with you in another post.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my beautiful birds with you.

HAPPY BIRD WATCHING

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