The Cats are Gone... the Birds are Back!

All of these birds are either in our yard or on the roof next to our house!  

I think we are living in an Aviary!

It is wonderful and we don't even feed them...

they just hang around and sing their hearts out!

This gives new definition to "Bird Watching".

This one is my favorite.  She has a new nest!

Doesn't one of the muppets look like this?

Our gorgeous incandescent sunbird--he is about 2 1/2 inches long.

"Which do you like best? My right side or left?"

 When Bruce comes back with the East Africa Bird Book

we'll actually find out the names of all these little guys.

Notice how many have their mouths open... singing!

Or not... maybe this one just discovered that hanging out on barbed wire
 isn't such a good idea!

He is just a baby bird.

Checkin' out the neighborhood  from our roof.

His neck goes all the way around like an owl.

Ok. things are good here..off to the next house.

Little too dark to see this one well.

These little swallows nestle in each evening.. right outside our front door.

Oh.. these are little hand-carved wooden birds that i got for Katherine.

Don't let her see them. Ha!  

A little fuzzy but so cute

Coming in for a landing.

"YOU are TOO close... Get on your OWN side!"

 In our yard!

"Mom, Look!  Look, Mom, look how fast my wings go!!"

"Ok.. that wore me out.. I'm going to rest here."

 New birds today! Haven't seen these before.

Blah, blah, blah..

 "Like i was saying..."

 Every time Innocent tried to trim the bushes near Creamsicle's nest

she would go after him.. pecking at him and trying to get him away!

 This little one was trying to get into the house.

 Sorry.. had to take this through the screen door.

"And who do you think you're lookin' at?"

This is the warbler!   He sings louder than all the other birds!

 "Yes, that's true. I pride myself in this!"

  "And also the way they did my hair on top! Do you like it?"

"Thank you! Thank you very much!"


That was fun!
love,
margie

For You, Sally---from Saturday!

  

From my 2 hour walk today....The Day of Silence!

  

  How appropriate to find the "crown of thorns"

 This is a beautiful cactus--a rich blue green.

F

Really, a poinsettia? 

 A whole poinsettia "tree" plant.

 A look- alike pineapple?

 This is like a baby flower wrapped inside another flower
Looks sort of like purple tissue paper, doesn't it?

Can you see the 2 little birds---one on the rock and one just to the left?  They just sat
there while i took their picture.

I've never seen this one before. Anyone know what it is called?


And now some of the trees!

Baby pine cones! 

The Avocados... hanging on the ...

Avocado Tree

 Just beautiful trees.. I don't know what they are.

The white columns on the left are at the house 
on the corner of our street. 

These palms are like an entrance to the fields.


And these are some of the fields!

 What lies beyond the fields...city off to the left.

 Some new plantings.

 I took a walk down this path... It is a footpath, not a cow path.  There are 100s of these paths so you can walk just about anywhere you would like to go all over Kigali.

Patchwork after patchwork fields.

Downtown --the one skyscraper -the City Tower-  beyond the fields.

And some landscapes!

 This is the house with the columns and it is on our corner 
and it faces the fields and downtown.

This house is basically behind the white house and down the hill.  
Laundry drying on the shrubs.

These guys live next door to the white house and are playing soccer 
with a banana fiber soccer ball. 

I think he got a piece of it! 

Continuing to walk behind the big houses.. Sweet little neighborhoods and 
very nice neighbors.  Got to "talk" to several.  Some even spoke English. 

 The old and new together

I found this picture walking on the footpaths.


Interesting Roads and Buildings along the way!



Starting back to our house.  It is now the rainy season.



This is an idea of the brick work that they do here- 
 around all the walls and front entries.





Looks like folks are trying to pick out the color of their house!
Under construction!



Most people have barbed wire all around the top of their 
gates and walls.  We don't at our house.



Finally, back at our front gate.  How do you like 
those hedges?  Cool, huh?  
Hope you enjoyed walking with me.  It was very silent 
because very few people were out today.  
Pray for Rwanda this week....as they hold their week of Remembrance.
love,
margie