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Post by skysmum on Nov 3, 2021 22:29:59 GMT
I thought that, very Eco friendly little birds  |
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Post by Hezz on Nov 13, 2021 1:15:49 GMT
Update: someone is in the nest again!! Maybe just trying it out for size, but if things continue we may just have family #3 from the nest this year, and it has not even been a good year, in my opinion, but then I’m not a sunbird. |
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Post by jellybean on Nov 13, 2021 9:06:07 GMT
That's been a well used nest Hezz. |
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Post by Hezz on Nov 14, 2021 0:30:53 GMT
That's been a well used nest Hezz. It certainly has been this year, JB. It’s only been a couple of weeks since the last ones left the nest. It’s having better turn over than some rental properties.  . I’ve not seen this happen before. She definitely seems to be sitting, so I guess we will wait and see what happens. |
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Nov 14, 2021 5:33:31 GMT
You must tell the residents that you'll be charging rent and the rent they have to pay is to entertain you with songs and beautiful sights!
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Post by Hezz on Nov 15, 2021 0:38:46 GMT
They pay me back in spades just by being there. . They do have to make their own house but after that it is free board and lodgings, free flowers, and even their water is catered for. I love watching them have a bath when I’m watering the garden. |
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Post by skysmum on Nov 15, 2021 19:31:05 GMT
How lovely  I often think, come the spring, i would like to put a 'TO LET' sign outside my teapot and boxes |
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Post by Hezz on Nov 15, 2021 23:43:51 GMT
How lovely I often think, come the spring, i would like to put a 'TO LET' sign outside my teapot and boxes Yes, a “To Let” sign is needed. . Another pair have been “house block” hunting as well. They just love a piece of string hung in a doorway  . There is one outside the kitchen window that has been used previously, but I think not recently because just inside is Loki’s favourite perching tree. I imagine it could be quite scary, seeing a Lokster Monster seemingly flying straight at you, if you are a tiny thing. On a slight tangent, picking grass this morning down a little gully near the cane fields, so many little birds flying about all doing what they needed to be doing - silver eyes, red-backed wrens, crimson finches and chestnut-breasted manikins, none of them bigger than what you could put in your hand, and then some of the slightly larger birds as well. I could have stayed there for ages watching them. Pity I had things to be doing, sigh. |
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Post by Hezz on Nov 17, 2021 0:48:32 GMT
She is still in the nest so there must be something to be sitting on. Apparently they give a new abode a trial couple of days to see if it is going to work for them. I’ll give her a little longer before being confident that we have some boarders again.
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Post by Hezz on Nov 24, 2021 0:24:10 GMT
She is definitely sitting - we should be hearing peeps very soon.
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Post by Hezz on Dec 8, 2021 0:18:47 GMT
We have at least one little one in the nest. Kept himself very quiet up until yesterday, Mum and Dad must have been doing their bit on the quiet as well as I’d just decided that this time wasn’t to be when very strong chirping sounded from the nest and I see one little beak peaking over the top of the opening. |
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Post by criswell on Dec 9, 2021 8:05:12 GMT
That's lovely What do sunbirds eat Hezz? |
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Post by Hezz on Dec 10, 2021 0:27:04 GMT
That's lovely What do sunbirds eat Hezz? They are basically a honeyeater, criswell, very like a hummingbird in lots of way, but they do feed on some (small) insects. I suppose because this baby has the nest all to himself, he is very cute watching him sitting right up at the entrance of the nest with his beak poking out, and then sliding back down so he can barely be seen if he knows I’m there. |
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. I’ve not seen this happen before. She definitely seems to be sitting, so I guess we will wait and see what happens. 
. There is one outside the kitchen window that has been used previously, but I think not recently because just inside is Loki’s favourite perching tree. I imagine it could be quite scary, seeing a Lokster Monster seemingly flying straight at you, if you are a tiny thing.