Garden Bird Feeder - Pretoria, South Africa

This camera is mounted at a garden bird feeder in Pretoria, South Africa, and delivers some of the most consistently busy and colourful wildlife footage of any garden camera on the internet. Fischer's lovebirds, yellow weavers, sunbirds, and dozens of other species crowd the feeders throughout the day, with fruit, seed, and fat balls attracting a remarkable diversity of visitors in constant rotation.

The species list recorded at this feeder runs to over fifty birds, plus nocturnal mammals including lesser bushbabies, large spotted genets, and Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bats after dark. Pretoria sits in a transitional zone between the Highveld grassland and bushveld, which helps explain the exceptional variety of species that pass through a single suburban garden.

The feeder is active year-round and the camera runs continuously, meaning the feed shifts character significantly between day and night. Daytime brings waves of weavers, doves, hornbills, and sunbirds, while after dark the mood changes entirely as nocturnal mammals emerge to take advantage of the food left behind.

Did You Know? The lesser bushbaby recorded at this feeder is one of the smallest primates in the world, weighing as little as 150 grams. Despite its tiny size, it can leap up to 2 metres in a single bound and navigates entirely by its enormous eyes, which are so large relative to its skull that they cannot move in their sockets at all.

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