The Olive-backed sunbird is a common resident of our parks and housing estates.

Every once in a while, some residents in HDB flats, are bestowed with the honour of having a sunbird build a nest at their corridor or near their flat.

And most recently, a resident in Tampines caught another observation of how adaptable these sunbirds can be.

Sunbird spotted 'stealing fluff' from clothes drying on neighbour's laundry pole

In a Facebook post, Angelin Mei Lin Koh, shared her sighting of a female olive-backed sunbird "stealing" clothing fibres from laundry that was hanging from a neighbour's unit who lived above her.

Koh then took some whimsical shots of the sunbird in action as it perched itself onto the blanket and sneaked out fibres from the blanket.

If you are wondering, the male and female Olive-backed sunbird can be differentiated by the feathers on the throat area.

The male ones have dark-blue feathers around the throat area while the female has yellow feathers.

Here's how the male looks:

Build nest for baby sunbirds

The sunbird was likely picking out the clothing fibres for nest-building.

While Koh observed the collection of the material for the sunbird's nest, she told Mothership that she did not see the nest of the sunbird.

As seen in the video below, the nest of a sunbird is painstakingly built with various items, such as dried leaves, feathers and various fibres.

It takes about one week to build a flask-shaped nest and the sunbird parents will care for their offsprings in it until they are capable of flying off on their own.

Hope the house owner doesn't mind this little one borrowing some clothing fibres.

Top photos by Angelin Mei Lin Koh/Facebook