But, every time I catch sight of them, Eastern Yellow Robins add a little sunshine to my day.
15 February 2022
91: Sunny Yellow Robins
But, every time I catch sight of them, Eastern Yellow Robins add a little sunshine to my day.
15 August 2021
90: Glowing Green
I visited my next-door neighbours this morning. Photographing Musk Lorikeets gorging on honey in the flowering gum tree in their yard.
Nomadic birds, they go wherever gum trees are flowering.
Staying only as long as the nectar in the blossom.
These birds were so plump full of sugar they seemed hyperactive.
So lively, they’re exquisite to watch, even when they’re in hiding.
Watching
them made me forget there was such a thing as Coronavirus.
Thanks to my neighbours for morning tea and the photo opportunity!
Lockdowns
will end, things will always get better.
Rainbow
coloured birds will still fly and fill the trees with soft chattering.
We can still feel joy that there’s such enchanting creatures to see in our world.
31 December 2020
89. Wild Willies
We have a high walled courtyard off the main bathroom.
When my children were preschoolers, they planted a branch of cypress there.
Surprisingly, a pine tree grew. It must have come up from a seed on the stick.
The kids thought themselves master gardeners, especially when a pair of Willie Wagtails built a nest in that pine.
26 December 2020
88. Happy Christmas from the Angel on the Tree Top
Christmas Day was yesterday. I didn’t imagine it, but birds seemed to be in on the human celebrations, tweeting from 5 am to 7 pm. Especially the Cockies who are kind of cocky at the best of times.
16 December 2020
87: Scarlet (Hay) Fever
You rarely see something so enchanting it seems like an illusion, but that’s what happened last spring.
07 November 2020
30 October 2020
20 October 2020
85. Blue-billed Duck Making a Splash
The absolute need to replace ourselves is scratched deep into the DNA of every living creature. But few birds have such an awesome courtship display as the Blue-billed Duck.
14 October 2020
84. The Swallow Sagas - Part 1
Welcome Swallows are the most prolific and resilient birds I know. A flock of them breed permanently at my farm house, getting through to the eaves.
09 October 2020
83. Babysitting a Finch
I heard a plaintive cry outside the lounge room. It usually means the finches are in danger; that either a goanna or a snake threatened.
08 October 2020
82. Feathering the Nest
In spring
birds fly two by two
playing
chasing
dancing on branches
bobbing and bowing
mating
nest building
finding feathers
for beds
for eggs
to nestle nestlings
the babes to be
hatchlings
and chicks
04 October 2020
81. Naked Birdwatching
I’ve never watched the birds unclothed before. I was so focused on a young Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo out my bathroom window, I didn’t even grab a towel.