Birds of the Northern Cape, SA.

I decided to begin a new topic and add birds as I take them...

This afternoon, the Whitebacked Mousebirds, hanging around as usual, taking in the last of the sun.

Another pic...they are so funny hanging around in the trees.

This is a yellow canary (Serinus flaviventris). Hopefully I will get better pics in days to come, but it's been nearly 5 years since I last saw one...and it seems they visit late evening.

Common Laughing Dove or Palm dove....they are waiting for the next round of grass seeds I'm about to sow.....

Common Cape Sparrow's warming up this morning...mom, dad and the little one in the middle.

Nice!

Seen Laughing Dove (they occur north to Morocco and Turkey), but not the others.

Resin

Very nice pics Little!

Love the White-backed Mousebird!

Such neat birds!

Thanks guys...

This is the Endemic Orange River White-eye (12cm). The orange tint on the side makes it different from the common Cape White-eye, also endemic, but this one is special. It only occurs in the dry west of the country.

This is the African Hoopoe...just to complete....I did post another pic earlier this week in one of the other forums.

And Resin, I will get a pic with that open crown....lol, if you remember we spoke about it months ago.

Hahaha...in Afrikaans it's known as the Gariep White-eye, which I like more because the Orange river is much longer than it's natural distribution and Gariep gives a more correct distribution "name" if that makes sense.

Got 1 and a half great pics of the white-eye today...something I wanted to do for a long time....here is 1.

and a half...

Male & female sparrow again

That second pic is great!