African Pied Wagtails

 I had a new app on my iPad which not only gave useful bird identification pictures, maps and pictures of nests but, to Vetboys pleasure, it also played back birds calls.

He was playing this African Pied Wagtails call and suddenly noticed that these two were getting closer and closer as their curiosity about this "bird" overcame their natural shyness. They came with in a meter or two of him but no one else could get close enough to take a good photo.


They did this any time we played the call. Small maintained that they were two lonely bachelors looking for a likely female, while my husband thought that they were defending their territory.

What ever the reason, no other birds responded in similar manner but we did have a lot of fun watching these little guys up close.