A break in the rain...

...and look what came in to sit on a high tree in the sun.

I got him on camera at a very special time in their lives. It is called the breeding session, and Romeo was dressed in his mating suit.

It is a male Southern Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris chalybeus), and he was announcing his intentions loudly in song. Now how do I know that he was dressed in his mating suit? Simple, the yellow epaulets on his shoulders were very prominent. Out of the mating season the yellow epaulets remain hidden. We have watched him grow up as he flitted through our garden when his colors were patchy and his singing was at a progressive stage. At first some single notes, as a youngster, and then one day he just started to sing his full tinkling song.