Our figs suddenly ripened a week ago. We were thinking they weren’t going to this year round. We’d had a long hot dry summer and we hadn’t watered the tree, or most of our garden, wanting to preserve our water as we live on tank water. We got some rain, wind and sun in the…
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Two young Lorikeets
The other day I heard a couple of Rainbow Lorikeets in our garden and went and tracked them down. I trod carefully as they’re usually flighty and take off really quickly. But these two were curious and stuck around. They were smaller than most I’d seen and I came to the conclusion they were youngsters….
Aussie Birds Video Clip
Thought I’d share with you a clip that shows at my favourite bird forum. It shows some Australian birds, some well known, some not so. I know most of them and they show in this order: Tawny Frogmouth chick, White Cockatoo, Willie Wagtail, Rainbow Lorikeet, Australian Laughing Kookaburra, Duck, Bush Turkey, unknown small bird, Black…
Rainbow Lorikeet pays a visit
In line with my recent bird posts, this one is about the Rainbow Lorikeet. We first saw them here our first summer, when the fig tree was in fruit (2010) but haven’t seen them since. So I was delighted when last week I looked out my dining room window and there’s one in the liquidamber…
Rainbow Lorikeets
The first thing I noticed when I entered the zoo pathway was the sound of excitable lorikeets and how they were flying from tree to tree. The lorikeet is a species of parrot here in Australia and very colourful. They love fruit and nectar and can be seen in flowering gum trees and fruit trees…
Rainbow Lorikeet
Thought I’d post some more images from the other night. I don’t usually get so close to these beautifully vibrant coloured birds. They are partial to flowering gums and fruit trees. I sometimes see them in our fig tree when the fruit is ripe, and our neighbour’s flowering gum tree – but always at the…
Look who came to dinner too!
We went to a friend’s place for dinner last night, along with some other friends, and sat on the outside deck enjoying our meal. As we sat there more guests arrived for dinner and I was delighted to get shots of them. In these shots is a Common Bronzewing (quite a large bird) and a…
Caught in action!
Another rainbox lorikeet in the fig tree – I have to tread carefully and quietly on the verandah and path below the tree so I don’t alert them of my presence until they hear the click of my camera! By then I’ve caught them in action before they fly off.
Peek-a-boo
The figs on our tree have become attractive to the local birdlife now they’re almost ripe. Waiting for the lower branches to ripen so we can have some!