With the recent rain, the bird bath hasn’t had a lot of visitors lately. But this King Parrot (should really be called a Queen Parrot) turned up looking for some company or food, whatever…). She let me come quite close to take this photo.
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* Art
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* Wikipedia entry
We’ve not had much traffic to capture over the last few days. Yesterday, a couple of Rainbow Lorikeets couldn’t get close to a drink as a bigger cousin was guarding it…
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* Art
* Nesting
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* Blaxland Birds list
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* Wikipedia entry
* on ebird
We’ve had a bit of rain lately, so there hasn’t been much incentive for local birds to come over and use the ‘bath… Cockatoos are always present, though, and Currawongs would like to get a look-in occasionally!
More Sulphur Crested Cockatoo entries:
* Art
* The Birds
* Taking Turns
More Currawong entries:
* Art
* Pied Currawong
Other birds
* Blaxland Birds list
Elsewhere about these birds:
* Cockatoo : Wikipedia
* Cockatoo : ebird
* Currawong : Wikipedia
* Currawong : eBird
A very hot day today and a disappointing number of birds coming for a drink… Mind you, the Sulphur Crested Cockatoos are always present…
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Not much to chose from among our bird visitors today, so here is another Bronzewing cooling its heels…
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Sigh… today’s results were so-so… We’ve had a bit of wet weather lately, so traffic to the water bowl was modest, also I’ve been fiddling with the camera angle, which resulted in shots with difficult shade and sunlight. Please bear with me while I get our stuff together…
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With all the rain we’ve had over the past week, the bird bath hasn’t had many customers. Today I took the opportunity to re-position the camera into a, perhaps, permanent position.
Bronzewing pigeons are regular visitors to our watering hole. They need regular refreshment when the heat is on. But you would think they’d be more accommodating when a friend comes to visit…
More Bronzewing entries:
* Drinks Hierarchy
* Taking Turns
* Art
Other birds
* Blaxland Birds list
Elsewhere about these birds:
* Wikipedia
* eBird
Here is another long term “friend of the family”, the Red Wattlebird, often seen when there are flowering gums or Banksia nearby.
More Wattlebird entries:
* Art
Other birds
* Blaxland Birds Listing
Elsewhere about this bird:
* Wikipedia Entry
* Red Wattlebird Call
It’s been terrific to get feedback and comments via the BB Facebook group. To continue on yesterday’s topic, would this be a moulting male Satin Bowerbird on its way to turn into a glossy black bird? That would then also identify it on this earlier post.
Update: Come to think of it, there was an adult male bird back last month when I was just starting…
More Satin Bowerbird entries:
* Drinks Hierarchy
* Satin Bowerbird
* Art
Other birds
* Blaxland Birds list
Elsewhere about this bird:
* Birdlife entry
* Wikipedia