Oh yes, I knew that there just had to be a Malachite somewhere in this bush.
So it took a 2 kilometer hike and at times crawl though some thickset parts to find the guy above. Marian tagged along with me and she had her medical set in the backpack in case my knee packed up.
But a much bigger award awaited us.
There were two Malachite Sunbird (Nectarinia famosa) males in the top of the dry tree and I have never seen two of them together. Maybe a father and son, or two brothers. What a prize find!
Now if you were to see this bush from a distance, you would think that there was nothing in it. But some of its leaves moved and I was hoping that it would be a snake.
Nope as it was two Cape White Eyes (Zosterops virens)
Cute little birds doing their thing in the bush and that means looking for insects.
I hid behind the blurred bush at the front of the picture to take spy shots of the Cape Sugarbirds. Lady at the left with her one foot up and male at the right drinking nectar from a protea flower.
Oh yes, as you have seen in a previous post, the Cape Sugarbird male (Promerops cafer) has a very long tail.
We had to take a shortcut through the bush to reach the mountain and I will show you the walk through the bush in another post.
Yes, every now and then it takes some real effort to get whatever it is that one wants and I just wish so many others will get up, go out and go and try their best to get whatever they want. We have a few million people here sitting around unemployed and they are classified as "discouraged work seekers". This need not be if they were prepared to go out and really go after employment. One cannot live in a mobile phone every day.
And That's all Friends.
Note: All photos are my own and taken with a Canon Powershot SX60HS Bridge camera.
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