We have grown accustomed to sitting at breakfast and hearing the birds bring in the morning. The
friendly warble of the magpie, the squawking of the crows, the
chirping of the honeyeaters, and the occasional ear-piercing shrieking of the wattle birds. This morning I said to Andy, "It sounds like new birds are in the hood." On my walk into the office, I learned that in fact, they were a flock of about a dozen rainbow lorikeets! I saw them all fly into a tree about 100 yards away.
On my walk home late in the afternoon, I noticed the new chirping sound and I stopped at a tree about a block from home. It was full of blossoms, and when I looked very closely, I could also see a handful of lorikeets. I took about 35 pictures trying to get just the right angle. I was standing part way in the street trying to get a good view when I looked down and a man on a bicycle approached. It was
Martin, the artist from whom we bought a painting a few months ago. He watched with me as one of the birds came out to the edge of the branch and appeared to be doing something that looked like flexing his muscles. Martin got out his phone to take a picture and cheered, "He's posing for me, he's posing for me!"
It never ceases to amaze me the kinds of exotic (to me) birds that we see while walking through residential neighborhoods.
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| Corella |
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| Sulphur-crested Cockatoo |
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| Galahs |
There are also any number of less dramatic-looking birds that are just as interesting to me. Here are just a few of our feathered friends.
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