Dawn
These sooty chats are new comers to our area. One sooty chat couple seem to be building a nest in the empty land next to our home. The male (the one in this picture) is shiny black , while the female is dark brown. The male seems to have a white patch on its wings, which is not seen in this picture.
The song of these birds is sweet, not as silvery voiced as the sunbird but the calls are almost similar. This bird is quite small , maybe about 10-12 cms in length. These birds seem to be coming into my son’s room to collect twine, so I have left a of of them in my plants. The couple near my home seem to be very hard workers. They seem to be flying around all day collecting material for their nest.
The sad part is they are building their nest in a construction site. The construction has stopped temporarily because of the lockdown. I hope that the young ones would be ready to fly away before the lockdown is lifted.
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Question of
Are you interested in learning about birds?
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Question of
Do you like bird watching?
I love birds. I haven’t seen this bird before.
Very interesting bird, new to me. I always love watching the birds around me.
Yeah, I enjoy those pictures you post here.
Right now we are watching the Osprey and the Bald Eagles protect their eggs. Every day we check and see what is happening. We are working on waiting.
Wow! that is lovely, we don’t have ospreys here. Get some pictures too as you watch the birds and share them with us.
big fan of birds! I love the name Sooty, We live near a group of Ravens. I leave foil (they like shiny things) on our back deck.
I didn’t know the name of this bird, I had to check with a budding ornithologist to double check my information from the internet.
He does look sooty doesn’t he?
he really does look sooty! like he lives in a chimney!
i would say there is a smartphone app that does bird identification, but you probably already know that.
So true that is what I thought as well. LOL Yeah i use a couple of apps, but some birds look the same I always check with my little friend the budding ornithologist for confirmation
trust but verify is my motto 🙂
I like to follow that as well but sometimes I can be a bit impulsive which always gets me into trouble.
Yesterday I watched how calm a raven was in the branches of a pine tree in the park. I took a picture of him. I like birds. They are very interesting to watch.
Like you I love birds too, I can watch them all day long.
That is an awesome photo of the bird. I have never seen one like that.
I am not sure if I had seen this one before. I thin k they are new here.
You know I always love learning about new birds. Never seen this one.
In that I am like you as well, watching birds can keep my happy all day long.