With the mason banging away at the concrete walls so hard that the house is shaking it’s surprising that today I’ve seem more variety of birds in an hour than for months before. I am enjoying their songs these days. In the big tree that seems to have finally finished shedding little yellow leaves like a carpet every day after they’re raked up, that now has an abundance of little green leaves on interlacing levels of branches I’ve seen today:
- the resident vultures
- yellow medium sized birds
- a yellow little bird (one of these yellow I think are weavers from the tree in neighbour’s backyard)
- some little grey/brown sparrow types (or are they female finches?)
- a red finch
- a blue finch
- a black finch (?seems the same from the distance I saw it)
- a red/blue/green honeysucker I think - small, with 2 longer feathers in the tail
- turtledoves
Some even stood still and looked like they were listening when I tried to talk to them, others just disappeared further into the foliage.
