March 21, 2012

For Blackie, with lots of love.  (He reckons he is 21 today with 20 years experience!) 
Hope your day was a happy one - 41 little birdies told me that your year will be a great one!
For those who missed previous posts on the subject:  There used to be a dead Guava tree just outside my yard. The tree was a very popular resting place for birds, and obviously a source for many photos.  Unfortunately the tree was chopped down by one of the workers. I was devastated and summoned help to go and find the discarded tree.
We cut off a large branch, brought it home and wired it to the corner post of the fence a few meters
 from where the original tree used to be. Slowly the birds started coming back.
 Earlier this month, while sitting on the patio chatting to Blackie on the phone, I found these European Swallows all perched in the Guava 'tree'  After downloading the photo, and finding that there were 41 birds I decided to save it for Blackie's 21+20th birthday!

March 20, 2012

This little bee kept rubbing its face - a pollen allergy, perhaps?

March 19, 2012

At 5:15pm I still had no photo! Just today I said to a colleague that I do not like to take photos of dead insects,
but this moth had such a colorful underside and it was getting dark....!
I would never have noticed had it been alive because the upper wings were very plain brown