This morning's walk was very fruitful and interesting (as always). I have been finding it hard to put a name to all the birds seen on this trip and I am hopeful that I have been accurate. I have a digital field guide on my iPad that is supposed to be the best guide around but I am not finding it as easy to use as I hoped to. For example, the first bird seen this morning at 7.15 was a Fiscal Shrike, a female. The chestnut flanks aided my identification. It was perched on low bushes in the nearby Green Point Park situated next to the Cape Town Soccer Stadium. It was hunting in typical shrike fashion.
The next little bird turned out to be easier to name, it's a Levaillant's Cisticola or Tinkling Cisticola, Cisticola tinniens. I have been doing my home work so when this little bird showed itself I was able to, at least look in the proper section of the field-guide and then come up with the right name. At first I saw one feeding next to water and then a few minutes later my attention was drawn to some scratchy singing and there, perched on the top of a flowering shrub and posing beautifully was first a male and then another bird, likely the female. (see above).
There were other very interesting birds seen today and I will put them in my galleries on my return and perhaps blog about them as well. There just isn't enough time when you are away, to keep up with attending to your family duties, photographing birds and blogging as well as, of course enjoying the other aspects of being in a foreign country. Heres a nother couple of great photos though.
The next one is a bird only found here in the Cape, a Cape Weaver (Ploceus capensis).
Wildlife in a Suburban Garden 
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