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Birding Photography

Bees like Grapes

Specifically hanepoot or mascadel grapes which if left long enough become incredibly sweet. We have an active bee hive and a hanepoot vine which has produced a nice crop of grapes this season so we ended up sharing our grapes with the birds and the bees.

The bees are cape honey bees indigenous to the Western Cape.

A cape honey bee explores a bunch of grapes.
the bee has found a grape with a hole pecked in it by a bird and is harvesting the sweet juce.

The birds that open the berries are Common or European Starlings

A black bird with white stippling sits on a concrete wall