Parrots are squawking among the acacia seeds and Heuglin s robin is emphatically laying noisy claim to the garden. I heard last year s mystery bird again yesterday, my then unknown squeaky-wheel bird. Now he s recognised with a smile as the brown-headed tchagra. But there are still mysteries - a number of soft sweet calls and warbles that I know are probably grass birds or seed eaters or canaries, but I can never trace the pretty thread of sound back to the singer. A full year has passed, and there is still so much to discover.
Summer is on it s way.
Till next week, try to stay out of trouble.