Summer evenings on the deck mean white wine for us and cheese for the Drongos. They are so persistent, and so obsessed with dairy, that we just call them cheesebirds. This year a Butcher bird has joined the fray.
We keep a block of cheese in the bar fridge upstairs and break off small pieces for the Drongos, which they will eat straight out of your hand. The Butcher bird doesn’t quite get cheese etiquette. . . or maybe he’s just a lot smarter than the Drongos.
Cheesebirds
Published October 6, 2011 Sedgefield Life 3 CommentsTags: butcher bird, butcher birds, fork tailed drongo, fork tailed drongos, sedgefield garden route, sedgefield south africa
Makes me quite homesick – in a recently sweltering UK. It was more than 30degrees in London last weekend and I actually got a bit sunburnt on a UK beach in October – I kid you not. Who says that there’s no climate change?
Hope you are having fun catching up with the family. Summer’s trying to start here but it’s a bit hit and miss. Yesterday was fantastic, this morning is grey, cloudy and freezing. The boys go back to school on Monday and it’s time for summer uniform, they are not keen on those tiny shorts in the cold!
Very sobering. Don’t like that this is in your backyard, too.