It has long been a question of mine....where do birds sleep?
We have all seen guinea fowl, crows and herons etc heading up into roosting trees for the night but I had never seen a sleeping bird before yesterday.
A while after sunset yesterday I was chasing some monkeys out of the garden when I passed under a low branch of a Grewia spp. ( a small bush). Something right near my face moved but only a short distance and in the near darkness I could make out one and then two Chin-spot Batis Batis molitor. Beautiful little birds that usually never sit still enough for a photograph . They are little insectivores that are constantly flitting around the thickest of cover with the tell-tail bill snapping the only thing that gives them away.
Strangely enough these two had obviously settled down for the night and my coming and going fazed them not one bit! I called Laurie and Oliver to see and even with their approach the birds remained motionless. I rushed for my camera and flash ready to seize this opportunity and still they refused to move.
Later....with a torch we came back and there they were in exactly the same place.
The Hwange Birder
We have all seen guinea fowl, crows and herons etc heading up into roosting trees for the night but I had never seen a sleeping bird before yesterday.
Strangely enough these two had obviously settled down for the night and my coming and going fazed them not one bit! I called Laurie and Oliver to see and even with their approach the birds remained motionless. I rushed for my camera and flash ready to seize this opportunity and still they refused to move.
Later....with a torch we came back and there they were in exactly the same place.
The Hwange Birder
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