Olive-backed sunbird

I spotted this tiny native Singaporean bird right in the heart of the city in the gardens of a condo. It was incredibly bold and hardly bothered by my presence, I actually followed it around as it flitted from flower to flower. In some ways it is similar to a humming bird, brightly coloured, living mostly on nectar - drinking here from a heliconia - and as I learned later it can actually hover, but only for a little while and seems to prefer the acrobatics in the photos below. Female sunbirds (identifies by their paler heads) join the males in a monogamous pair to raise chicks, in flask shaped nests they build suspended from anything they deem twig-like - door frames, electric wires and yes even twigs.