Yesterday afternoon, while sitting on the patio with a cup of coffee, I saw a bright glint of blue through some plants. I had my camera with me as I had been taking photographs earlier on. I focused on the flash of blue through the plants and to my delight saw this Glossy Starling (Lamprotornis nitens) and a Masked Weaver (Ploceus velatus) at one of my bird baths. The Starling seemed to be aware of me, but the Weaver was not perturbed by me or the Starling, hopping into the water and splashing water all over the Starling, who looked like he was also going to hop in, but never got around to it.
The Weaver spent a couple of minutes splashing around before taking off into the trees and settling down to preen himself. The Starling took a couple of drinks of water and also disappeared into the trees, sure that I was spying on him!
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Beautiful birds, Maree! Thank you for the photos.
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure Katherine, that Starling's colours are absolutely stunning!
DeleteThe Glossy Starling is quite startling with its bright blue body and that bright orange eye.
ReplyDeleteYes, he is John, it's wonderful to see those flashes of blue when the flit through the trees branches!
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