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| Red-faced Mousebird |
Until now I have only ever seen the ‘Speckled’
variety of Mousebird in my garden. There are literally dozens of them and they
look so cute, scurrying around inside the bushes. It is easy to see why the
name Mousebird was given to them. I often think they look like little mice
playing in the bushes.
Yesterday I was surprised when, while I was
watching a few Mousebird playing in the birdbath, I noticed that two of them
had red on their faces. I have never seen this before.
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| Red-faced Mousebird |
I had no idea what type of birds these were.
Since they looked so much like the Speckled Mousebird, I assumed they were
probably a variety of the Mousebird. My wife joked that it was probably a ‘red
masked’ Mousebird or something like that.
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| Red-faced Mousebird |
She wasn’t far off. It turns out that they are in fact the
‘Red-faced Mousebird’.
I love the number of birds that I have in my
back garden and what is really fantastic is how the more time I spend in it
leads to me discovering more birds. Just reminds me again of how we are oblivious to the beauty that is all around us. We are too busy scurrying around with the business of the modern world - TV, movies, shopping malls, restaurants and goodness knows what else. We need to slow down and take stock of what we really have.
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| Speckled Mousebird |
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