We have a strawberry guava plant in our garden and at the moment there is a lot of fruit on it.
The koel's love strawberry guava fruit and here is a female koel just about to leap onto the bush to eat the fruit. There is quite a lot of banging and crashing as the leaves bend under the weight of the koel's but they still manage to get quite a lot of the fruit without damaging themselves in the process.
A fabulous shot of the gorgeous looking new to me bird! The fruit is also new to me, I know guavas and strawberries, but not in combination. Are those the little yellow berries in the bottom left corner?
wow! Now that's an amazing garden visitor! Never heard or seen one of these before! You must have been amazed at the wildlife when you first moved out there! fav
It's a very interesting bird- reminds me somewhat of some of our raptors- but not if it's in the cuckoo family- I guess that makes her more like one of our woodpeckers. Good shot!
Ian
@maggiemae Strawberry guava fruit doesn't taste very good, so I am quite happy for the birds to eat it. It does look like a cherry.
@julzmaioro Koel's are cuckoo family so may be related to your shining cuckoo. Koels are migratory too from Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.
@stowgarden We do get some interesting wildlife in our garden. So different to the UK.