Welcome to my world. In my garden I find an endless flutter of butterflies, dragonflies, birds of so many colours, sizes and tune that its dizzying! Not just them, we have garden snakes, MANY varieties of frogs, bees and wasps, strange little mice that look like birds, slugs and bugs of every orientation and the past few days has seen some exceptional activity cause of the full moon. I'm learning how to be very quiet, very patient, very fast (or slow, as the situation calls for) and the earth is my best friend (actually, the only constant in my life) since I'm spending so much time either on my knees or completely flat to the ground. I just recently bought a bird book so will finally be able to give the birds in my garden their appropriate names!
I hope you like these! Feel free to comment and let me know if you know the names of any of the birds or butterflies...
Common Bulbul (Black-eyed Bulbul) pycnonotus barbatus
In my book, they say the call of the bird sounds like 'towee-too-tweeoo' which is of often translated as 'come back to Calcutta'!!
Yellow Breasted Apalis
Apalis flavida
Rufous Sparrow
Passer rufocinctus
African Firefinch L. rubricata
Speke's Weaver
Ploceus spekei
White-Necked Raven
C. albocollis
Had to throw this one in!
I call this one Zebrafly!
Sukumawiki or a type of Kale. A delish green made with fried onions and tomatoes, a Kenyan staple
The start of our veggie patch..
The equivalent of an ambulance siren in the forest, and 99% of the time they are in TWO, even THREE!
Hadeda Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
Love to All, Green and Small!
