Golden Harvest - African Harrier Hawk

It seems the black sparrowhawks have abondoned their nesting site at golden harvest. I made another trip this morning and there was no sign of them - and distressingly the nest seems to have been completely destroyed by one of the recent storms we had!

I did, however, have nice sightigs of the usual ovambo's, and also a young African Harrier Hawk:

Crested Barbet - Excavation continues

The barbets have now hollowed out a big enough space to turn around and come out beak first :)

Garden Bird News

Lately the grey go-away birds have been comming down to my feeder. These birds have become quite bold and sit on the balcony moaning at me if I don't put food out:


In other news, the Crested Barbet's that i blogged about back in march have been working on the sisal log again now that spring is here, as you can see form the second pic bleow they are making good progress:

Burchell's Coucal - Number 47!

Since the garden bird list got into the mid-forties new sightings have been hard to come by. So i was super excited to see a Burchell's Coucal going from tree to tree raiding the local birds nests - that brings the garden bird list to 47! Its a bird I often hear, but have never actually seen in the garden.