It was truly a heartening sight because lately I had rarely seen it perch for long, at this usual spot, so I'm pretty sure that this could be the 'widow' or 'widower'.
And then, the next sighting truly set my heart a-soar!
The only downside here is I will have to keep mum about the species of these ....! Suffice to say that I had seen the juveniles a few months back and thought they had been poached. These birds, I believe are the ones I saw, have turned out to be a pair of male and female, sub-adults now. The sighting of these birds truly truly made my day, but it also made me utter a fervent prayer that they would be able grow into adulthood and move away from the taman across to safer habitat.
It is sad but I wish I could post their beauty here but as someone once said, better be correct from the heart than fear misunderstanding. I would probably post the birds later when I could be more certain that the posting would not endanger them. There are poachers in the taman.
This decision whether to share or not, as of bird nesting or of nest, will always pose a dilemma to birders. On the one hand, it would be great to share sighting yet on the other hand, the sharing could lead to the entrapment or poaching of the sighting.
It looked like it was a morning for sighting juveniles because I then came across these juvenile Zebra Dove, Brown-throated Sunbird, and with a male adult, all in the same area.
It's truly a morning of mixed emotions, of hope and renewal yet of apprehension.
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| Zebra Dove |
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| Juvy Brown-throated Sunbird |
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| Brown-throated Sunbird |
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