The birds are getting used to seeing me at my dining room window watching them. The feeder is only a few feet away and I love to watch them as they’re feeding and walking over the limbs of the large liquidamber tree. Just yesterday, when working in the garden a couple of Rosellas sat in…
Author: Kathie
Yellow Robin and Blackbird
Two other birds that came out to play that day was the Eastern Yellow Robin and also a Blackbird – not sure if it was a female or juvenile as the adult males are very black. I don’t often get the chance to photograph blackbirds as they take off as soon as they detect movement,…
Superb Fairy-wren
The male of this species is coloured a very bright blue during mating season which is late winter-Spring. The females are brown and the young are also brown but often with mottled colouring and blue/black tails. They have an interesting and cute (I think) call sound. While I was in the garden a couple of…
Quarrelling Rosellas
The crimson rosellas have lots of juveniles out now. We see them in the garden on a regular basis. They love to quarrel over the feeder or any seed they spill on the ground. Below is an adult on the feeder and then two juveniles having a bit of a squabble over the feeder. They…
Eastern Rosella
Not a very sharp shot. Graham and I were walking around our property and checking on things and as we came through under some trees into the backyard we noticed this bird pop up from the long grass (ground too wet to take the mower on it as yet). It only stayed momentarily before flying…