It's not often that you get a chance to photograph birds with a macro lense - this was one of those rare occasions. Here, at Lion Hill Lodge in Nakuru National Park in Kenya the Speke's Weaver birds have become highly habituated to people. This chap had no qualms with joining me at the table to help himself to my biscuits and to be quite honest I did not mind either. It was a great pleasure to be able to study them up close and to practice my macro bird photography. 

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However, I do wonder that the nutritional value of these biscuits is probably not really what a healthy weaver bird needs. I recall hearing about seagulls which ate large quantities of fried chips and as an result the female's eggs became highly fragile from a lack of calcium in their diet.

Even though I think that the effects of human food on the health of wildlife is probably the least of our concerns compared to the great man made calamities affecting the natural world, I do feel that the mind of a good naturalist should always question how our actions affect the natural world around us.