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Birds: Oxpecker – friend or foe?

Birds: Oxpecker – friend or foe?
Yellow-billed oxpecker. Picture: Dylan Vasapolli/Birding Ecotours
Yellow-billed oxpecker. Picture: Dylan Vasapolli/Birding Ecotours

I might be speaking too soon, but I think the worst is over. Both our boys are in primary school now, which means that lots of difficult baby-phase stuff is all in the past: nappies, dummies, tantrums, taste-testing disgusting things found on the ground…

Of all these trials, the most patiencetesting parenting challenge was washing the boys’ hair. It was an ordeal for the entire Peacock house, and by that I mean the literal building.

Water. Everywhere.

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