Bloomfields housing estate birds

I like a pre dawn little walk around Bloomfields housing estate, firstly it a cooler and quiter than at any other time of day....but not for long, the kids here have to leave stupidly early to battle with the traffic just to get to school on time.

First thing you see around 05:30 is hundreds and hundreds of Swallows and Pacific Swallows heading out West from the roost at SM Fairview. I have seen the roost on the advertising hordings for the last 3 visits since 2008, so no reason to believe this will change, I haven't checked it properly for other hirundines, so will do that when we are back from a 2 day trip into Makati.

As soon as I got out this morning I had an Osprey over and the usual Glossy Swiftlets.

Tree Sparrow and Yellow Vented Bulbul are abundant, but my favourite estate bird, the Brown Shrikes are always on show, all ages, very confiding, often squabbling with Pied Fantails and giving their rattling call:

 

 

Today I had my first perched Olive Backed Sunbird on the estate, as I generally only see them going over.

The Straited Grassbird is obviously local too, not seen this here in the previous two visits.