A new visitor to the garden is the Yellow-Faced Honeyeater. In between nectar slurping this one was beating up the little wrens and spinebills who also wanted a frolic in the blossom. Quite the bully bird!
Tuesday 23 August 2011
Foiled Again!
You have to look closely (yep, I need that super zoom – remember if you click on the pic it will bring it up big) but this Galah is happily munching on a seed or such. See the freaky claw at the mouth?
Buggar! Dropped it!
Bye bye dinner.
May as well clean up.
Big sooky, hungry Galah.
A Good Day For Eating Honey
The Eastern Spinebill is one of my little sweet hearts. But they are so hard to snap! They only seem to come a calling now and then and they are so camera shy. I think this little sweetie is a boy bird because he has the beautiful patterns. The girls are decked out in slightly less fancy feathers.
Perched and Pretty
A couple of Galah's enjoying a good gander at the two humans and four-legged pooch wandering around below them.
Ooh La Galah
Galahs are a common kind of cockatoo and Aussie icon.
They might be common, but they sure are pretty.
Dapper Darter
I do believe this is a Darter, a pretty hefty old water bird I spotted out at our local reservoir, which is now a haven for wildlife after years of miserable drought.
The snake-like neck is a very handy fishing tool – not so good for the little fishes.
Friday 5 August 2011
Still Life
Little Fantail
Massive and Mighty
Now I really wouldn't want to get in a boxing ring with this one. Check out those shoulders! Not too mention those claws!
Kanga Watch
Eagle Alert
The Three Cockatoo's
Aren't wings amazing? I wouldn't mind some. Pretty impressive how cockies can screech and fly at the same time. It must be fun!
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