Yellow-fronted Canary

Description:

A small attractive seedeater, size of a sparrow or slightly smaller. It is mainly grey and yellow, easily identified by those bright yellow cheeks and thick (also bright yellow) superciliums. Gregarious bird, sexes are alike, though females a bit duller in colour.

Habitat:

The yellow-fronted canary is a common, resident breeder in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a gregarious bird, and commonly found in open woodland and cultivation. Here, in residential area of Abuja, rather urban environment, but calm with lot of greenery, wooded parts close to lake.

Notes:

These two were beautiful to watch but a nightmare to photograph through three lines of barbed wire! Shots are still bit blurred, but as said through all that wire... it was worth trying and doing it - they were a lifer for me (another lifer from Nigeria... ), and they appeared just at the right moment - when the light was going down, but was still OK to shoot with my dying camera...