I’d mentioned how I’ve noticed different birds at the lake lately. When I was walking the other day I saw two white birds take off from the flock of seagulls at the edge of the lake. I’d assumed, at first, they were gulls too, but when I noticed their shape and colour when flying, and…
Category: Birds
Whistling Kites
I’ve noticed a few different birds at the lake of recent times. Birds I’d not noticed before. I don’t know if it’s a seasonal thing or because of the extended dry period we’ve had, or if it’s because I’m noticing things more. At any rate, I was delighted to see these two birds slowly circling…
Footprints in the sand
Walking around the lake last week I noticed these footprints in the sand, both bird and human. I do find the bird footprints fascinating. The bird that made these footprints is the Purple Swamp Hen. Not the most attractive of birds by any means.
Silver eye visitors
The Silver-eye are very tiny birds with a constant two-part ‘cheep’ sound. They love our fig tree and are all over it currently. You can see from the size of the figs below that these are quite tiny birds. Their colouring makes it easy for them to hide in the foliage of this tree and…
Lorikeets in the Fig Tree
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…