Emely

One important lesson I learned here is that while exotic plants may be beautiful,  local birds are more comfortable with native trees and plants. It took me a while to finish this course because I had to learn about our Philippine plants (surprisingly, I didn’t know much about them) and where to source them. But the learning was not only fun but enlightening as well. And, the results were amazing. I used to see and hear mostly Eurasian tree sparrows, but recently  the chestnut munia, yellow vented bulbul, Philippine pied fantail, olive backed sunbird , golden bellied gerygone and collared kingfisher have become residents of our backyard. We get a lot of visitors, too: pied triller, red keeled flower pecker, long tailed shrike, pacific swallows, and blue tailed bee eater. The brown shrike, supposedly a migrant, has been circling the neighborhood for weeks.