A Bird a Day in June: Day 21 – African Thrush

Day 21 of a series illustrating some of the fantastic birds we see here on Lake Victoria and across Tanzania. Many of these are seen in our garden.

African Thrush

African Thrush

African Thrush

Weekly Photo Challenge : Pure Song

A submission to this week’s photo challenge :Pure

We are privileged to have a number of birds visit our garden. Some of these have the most amazing songs – here are three. Grey-capped Warbler, Spotted Morning Thrush and White-browed Robin Chat. They can find these birds and others in a series of blogs this month.

Grey-capped Warbler

White Browed Robin Chat (Orange)

A Bird a Day in June: Day 5 – Spotted Morning Thrush

Day 5 of a series illustrating some of the fantastic birds we see here on Lake Victoria and across Tanzania. Many of these are seen in our garden like this regular visitor.

Spotted Morning Thrush

Spotted Morning Thrush

Spotted Morning Thrush

Catch up on  other days

• Day 1: Black-headed Gonolek
• Day 2: Green-winged Pytilia
• Day 3: Purple Grenadier
• Day 4: Eastern Grey Plantain Eater
• Day 5: Spotted Morning Thrush
• Day 6: Yellow-billed Black Kite
• Day 7: African Paradise Flycatcher
• Day 8: Variable Sunbird
• Day 9: White-browed Robin Chat
• Day 10: Red-cheeked Cordon Bleu
• Day 11: Grey-capped Warbler
• Day 12: Hadada Ibis
• Day 13: Red-chested Sunbird

Back to Nature

Realising that I haven’t posted any pictures from the garden I thought I’d share a few of the more recent pictures. Whether it’s the imminent start of the rainy season or the fruiting mango tree but recently we have started to find monkeys on the compound. These have driven the local birds into a frenzy along with the guard dog who has had something other than mongooses to chase.

African Paradise Flycatcher dive bombing a Monkey

African Paradise Flycatcher mobbing Monkey

African Flycatcher

Other than this we have had a few new birds including an Spotted Thrush of some kind and another Thrush-like bird (identity unknown).