joanne said:
Meta - thank you for the clip!! I hadn't realised how dark that pic of the rosella is (I'm seeing it now on my desktop not the ipad, which took the pic). I'll try for another this weekend.
My kookas aren't as fluffy or as white as the one above - where the white is is a bit grey. I figure it's an individual or regional difference. Behaviour and call is certainly kookaburra. At first I wasn't sure, but we do have families of them sitting on power wires hereabouts so I just quietly observed to confirm. (Yep, we still have poles and wires for phones and power in many of our older and more established neighbourhoods. Newer developments tend not to)
I didn't grow up with this kind of colour: Melbourne has different birds, mostly browns and grey. And there are galahs (grey and pink). marksierra can tell you about them, although he's much more into possums, which are different to yours...
I found a squishy peach in the fridge, chopped it up for the nectar-seeking birds and scattered on some branches. There's also a large seed block hanging off a sturdy twig.
I keep my plastic buckets by the garden tap (faucet?) under the window. I was going to grab one so I could wash the floors - and stopped when I saw the tree. No floor washing for a couple of hours.
At least 6 pairs of deep-green rainbow lorikeets snuggling side-by-side, grooming each other and settling down for a snooze. As they snuggle and shelter together, they form a heart shape. So peaceful, so calm, so sweet. Hardly any chattering or calling, just stillness.
Taking a pic would be too disruptive.