At the picnic ground tourists arrive every day on buses and in cars and the kiosk sells bird seed in small white bags for feeding the birds. So the Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos and Crimson Rosellas flock to the area. You see occasional Kookaburras too. This time round I just took some of the cockatoos.
Category: Birds
Two Firetails together
Thought this was cute – two little red-browed firetails sitting on the wire fence together, just surveying their surroundings.
Magpie on the lawn III
Got it! He decided he’d grab it anyway.
Magpie on the lawn
I throw out fruit and bread scraps onto our back lawn for the birds a few times a week. I don’t want them dependent on us for food but at the same time I don’t want to waste food that something could be eating. Two magpies spied the bread this past week and watched me…
Silver-eye
One of the great things with being outside every day with a longer lens is that I’m discovering birdlife I didn’t know existed, let alone on our own property. The two bird identifier posters in our dining room, left by the previous owners, have been great for my bird ID education. This is a silver-eye,…