December 15, 2011

Diederik Cuckoo
The sad calls of this juvenile bird has carried on for a number of days.
The host "foster mother" has probably stopped feeding it. I reckon it does not like wasps ;-)
For the regular readers of my blog: this happens to be the dead guava tree that I fixed to the corner fence post after it was cut off and discarded by one of the groundsmen. Bird traffic is back!
It is such a pity that the light was not too good today. Hopefully I will get the opportunity again on a brighter day to take a photo that shows the beautiful bright green of this bird.
This is a female because her throat has a touch of brown, although it can not be seen in this photo.