Wood Hoopoe's, Barbets & Planes

Wood Hoopoe's must be one of the most spectacular birds in Johannesburg's gardens. Its also a species i've never managed to get a half decent photo of - as you can see below. That is something i'm going to try improve on over the next few weeks:

In other news, the red collared barbets & red throated wrynecks are still fighting it out for the nesting log, at the moment the barbets seem to have the upper hand:

lastly, i thought this was a pretty cool snap:

Bird Number 49: Red-throated Wryneck

Wow, having not had a new bird on the garden list in months, i was super excited to spot a white-bellied sunbird this morning. Seconds later i spotted another new bird for the garden list - a Red-throated Wryneck. He was busy inspecting the Black-collard barbet's nesting log, much to their annoyance! So there you have it, two new birds for the list in one morning. I wonder how long it will take for number 50 to showup?

Bird Number 48: White-bellied Sunbird

Spotted on my Aloe this morning, first new bird on the garden list in quite some time!