Butterfly for Laetitia Paris The moment the torrential rains stopped and light broke through the clouds, I had to get out into the fresh and fragrant air to investigate the amount of destruction the storms and rains had caused in my garden, digital camera in hand… and this is how the creation of a...
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Communication with Birds Communication with Birds is a red thread through my life. . . but this was definitely a Cape White-eye SOS this morning! Panic in my garden! Social Networks These tiny birds form large “social networks” outside the breeding season and often visit flowering bushes or berry-bearing plants in large flocks –...
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Malachite Sunbird The Malachite Sunbird – or so-called Green Sugarbird – is endemic to the Cape Peninsula, right at the tip of Africa. It depends on the many nectar-producing plant species and the insects attracted to them on which they feed – especially the sugarbush Protea, the Pincushion Protea Leucospermum and Pagodas Mimetes, as...
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Malachite Sunbird Malachite Sunbirds (Nectarinia famosa, 1766, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa ) are beautiful little emerald jewels on flurry wings. Attracted by the rich colourful proteas and many other flowering species in my garden, I have a couple of them breeding and it’s not rare they even come into my Studio… the...
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