I love these tiny birds! They flash through the sky, sometimes landing on the pontoon in the baths.
Here’s a photo of one gathering mud to make a nest.
Sweet little creatures.
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The colours of the Rainbow Lorikeets are as spectacular as their name suggests. They catch my eye, whether in flight or at rest. Sometimes, a flock gathers around a picnic table and entices people to throw some crumbs in their direction.
Here is photo taken in the park near where Ron and I live.
Enjoy!
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I like to photograph the unusual. and it’s not every day that one sees a Masked Lapwing and a Silver Gull quite near each other on the beach by the river.
Silver Gulls are quite commonly found here, but the Masked Lapwings are a fairly rare sight. I guess that they have found the sands to be to their liking.
Enjoy this scene, on a river in Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.
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Let’s continue our focus on birds.
Although each of these feathered friends are common in the local bushland park, it is not so usual to see them together. Each prefers the company of their own kind, it seems. But here we have a frame containing both an Australian Magpie and a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo. Such good-looking birds!
Enjoy!
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This week, in Australia, birds are in the news. People are urged to watch them, count their numbers, and generally acknowledge their importance in the scheme of things.
With that in mind, I thought I’d like to focus on that most engaging, comical species: Sulphur-crested Cockatoos. These are a common sight where I live, especially in the park, but also in the streets where they search out suitable trees for food. You may remember that I featured a photograph of a pair tucking into lemons on a neighbour’s tree. 🙂
This picture, though, was taken in their natural environment: bushland, by the river.
Enjoy!
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