Thursday 10 November 2011

Sunbirds

Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Cape Town
31.10.2011


Male red breasted sunbird on a pincushion
The pincushion is a Leucospermum conocarpodendron, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucospermum_conocarpodendron, a Proteacea, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucospermum, the plants that I so much wanted to see!
The birds were nectaring just hummingbirds do in the Americas.

Later, on Table Mountain, we saw them feeding on insects, see a female below.

Female red breasted sunbird on a Proteacea shrub






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