Daily Archives: October 17, 2022

Brown Throated Wattle-eye

Brown-throated Wattle-eye: Bigodi Community Birding Project, Bigodi, Uganda, August 2022 — I posted another image of this bird in August while I was still in Uganda, but it deserves another post! This is the male of the species, which is named for the brown throat on the female bird…and that bright red wattle on both sexes. For a supposedly very common bird, I don’t see many in Uganda. One sighting in 2019 and just the one pair in 2022. Always happy to see one, of course. Sony Rx10iv at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixelmator Photo and Apple Photos. ISO 500 @ f4 @ 1/500th.

Grey-green Bushshrike

Grey-green Bushshrike: Bigodi Community Birding Project, Bigodi, Uganda, August 2022 — This is the smallest and oddest looking of the African Bushshrikes…so much so that you would be forgiven for thinking it is not a Bushshrike. 🙂 Also these photos are more about the bird than the photos. The bird was distant, the light was bad…I had to enlarge the images considerably to get usable scale. Still, it is a good bird! It was, until recently, called Bocage’s Bushshrike. (There also seems to be some debate whether it is Bush-shrike or Bushshrike? I am going with eBird here.) The Grey-green Bushshrike is found mostly in Uganda with isolated populations further west in central Africa, and one small population just into Kenya. (This is a bird that Wikipedia has practically no information on??) Sony Rx10iv at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixelmator Photo and Apple Photos.