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trevor s birding trevor s birding home about archives twitter links contact twitter facebook linkedin blog rss older posts another species at the birdbath no comments 2nd december 2020 category bird baths bush birds garden birds parrots and lorikeets purple crowned lorikeet a birdbath delight earlier this week i glanced out of my sunroom window to check whether there were any birds at my birdbaths i currently have three birdbaths just outside the room one on the ground one on a pedestal at about 60cm and one hanging from a tree branch at a height of about 1 5 metres i was delighted to see a small flock of purple crowned lorikeets having a drink and dipping into the water for a bath i have just checked my list of species to have visited the birdbaths this was bird species number 36 in addition to the three reptiles and two mammal species after a moment or two i counted up to seven individuals in or near the birdbaths soon they were joined by several house sparrows and three or four new holland honeyeaters there was a sudden screeching and a flurry of wings as a collared sparrowhawk swooped in to break up the party i didn t see if it caught anything for its supper purple crowned lorikeet common species the purple crowned lorikeet is a common bird in the murray bridge district of south australia where i live on most occasions however i hear them go screeching overhead at speed and rarely get good views of them like in today s photos sometimes i am lucky enough to see them reasonably close when they land to feed on the blossoms of one of the mallee trees on my land that is when my binoculars help out as well as the 83x zoom on my camera purple crowned lorikeet other lorikeet species there are two other lorikeet species which visit my garden or the trees on my 5 acre block they include the very common rainbow lorikeet and the dainty much smaller musk lorikeet i am so pleased to have the delight of regularly seeing all three of these colourful parrots right where i live purple crowned lorikeet another lovebird visit 2 comments 1st december 2020 category aviaries garden birds murray bridge non australian birds parrots and lorikeets aqua turquoise lovebird mutation aqua turquoise lovebird mutation a few days ago i wrote about the rosy faced lovebird which visited my garden recently my property is on the north western edge of murray bridge south australia it is a long way to the natural habitat of the lovebird in south western africa however lovebirds are a commonly kept aviary and cage species here in australia and in many other countries i suspect that that visitor and the individual seen in my garden just over a year ago had escaped from someone s cage or aviary i know that there are many keen aviculturists keepers and breeders of birds here in this district i have been a guest speaker at their meetings on several occasions in recent years different colours today s visitor was quite different i immediately noticed that the colours were much lighter just a little research turned up a variant known as the aqua turquoise mutation lovebirds like budgerigars have many colour variations when bred in captivity aqua turquoise lovebird mutation aqua turquoise lovebird mutation a ringneck mealtime no comments 29th november 2020 category bush birds flowers garden birds parrots and lorikeets mallee ringneck eating eremophila flowers mallee ringneck parrots australian ringneck parrots are one of many colourful and common members of the parrot family in australia there are several sub species of the ringnecks in australia and the one i have resident in my garden is the mallee ringneck named after their favoured habitat the eucalypt trees known as mallee trees i regard this species as a resident bird because i observe them almost every day on my 5 acre property on the edge of murray bridge south australia they have also nested in one of the hollows in one of my trees mallee ringneck eating eremophila flowers eremophila flowers i have a number of eremophila plants in my garden and they are all prolific when flowering often covering the whole bush when my wife was still alive she also loved this family of australian native plants and she had the foresight to plant quite a few around the garden the plant shown in today s photos is quite close to the front door i can stand near the window or door and observe the birds feeding on the flowers without them being aware of my presence of course the many honeyeaters in my garden also like these flowers mallee ringneck eating eremophila flowers i love seeing the ringnecks flying around my garden and feeding on the various bushes in flower they can be a little noisy at times especially when three or four or even more decide to kick up a ruckus however i do not appreciate the way they treat my pear trees when they have fruit on them a few days ago i found out that they had been chewing at the green fruit the pears are not much bigger than marbles yet they seem to enjoy chewing on them i guess that it is a small price to pay for having such a beautiful bird enjoying my garden a busy pair of galahs no comments 28th november 2020 category baby birds bird behaviour cockatoos and corellas garden birds parrots and lorikeets galah at a nesting hollow resident nesting galahs i live on the edge of the rural city of murray bridge which is about an hour s drive from adelaide south australia we are blessed to have a variety of parrots cockatoos and lorikeets in the region one of the common birds in this family is the galah i am sure that if i took a census of this species over a whole year there would be very few days pass without seeing at least a handful of these lovely parrots either resting in the trees in my garden or flying overhead on occasions i have even seen flocks of many dozens through to many hundreds they are a very common species in this area galah at a nesting hollow easy birding the photos shown in today s post were all taken in my garden and all within a few minutes of each other this hollow is in an old growth mallee tree within about twenty metres of my back veranda i have a comfortable chair located there and i enjoy sitting there reading or just watching the birds all around it is very relaxing and quite lovely that the local resident birds just go about their activities while totally ignoring me it also makes photography easy nesting attempts a pair of galahs have been working at this hollow for some years then about four years ago they started putting fresh eucalypt leaves in the hollow i eagerly anticipated a nesting attempt but they abandoned their quest about once or twice a day they would sit at the opening of the hollow and screech loudly into the hollow then fly away strange i thought an interloper takes over a few days later i discovered the reason why they hadn t successfully nested in the hollow i saw a brush tailed possum coming out of the hollow it had evicted the galahs from their home after some months i guess that the possum had moved on elsewhere in fact i haven t seen one or heard one on the roof for several years now so the galahs returned to their home success at last during late winter last year they again started working on the hollow during the next month or so they successfully laid eggs and raised their chicks which later fledged this year they have again been successful i didn t manage to get a photo of this year s chicks because they flew off before i could get a shot instead i have included below a photo of one of the chicks from last year s brood a few days after the two chicks fledged they were precariously hanging on to the branches of the trees nearby along with about a dozen other chicks from other parents most of them were calling to be fed and as the parents came in to feed them i had a very noisy galah nursery in my garden young galah chick nearly ready to fledge a family of currawongs no comments 27th november 2020 category baby birds bush birds garden birds magpies and currawongs juvenile grey currawong i find it interesting that i haven t heard or seen many grey currawongs in my garden in recent months i live on a five acre block of mallee scrub garden plants and a few fruit trees on the western edge of murray bridge about an hour s drive south east of adelaide south australia occasional visitors currawongs are usually only occasional visitors to my garden despite the species being widespread and relatively common in this region of the state i sometimes hear them calling up the hill from my home usually around sunset in past times i have heard or seen this species every few days this year their calls and visits have been very infrequent until the last few weeks juvenile grey currawong a family visit a few days ago i was treated to a visit from a whole family of grey currawongs i suddenly had four of them quite close to the house one adult and three juveniles the young ones kept begging for food while the adult was busily trying to satisfy the hungry tribe the young ones had only just fledged and were still looking quite fluffy and a bit scruffy grey currawong adult upset local residents with so many currawongs in a small part of my garden it is not surprising that the local residents were quite upset currawongs are very quick to take advantage of a tasty morsel from another s nest not being fussy whether it is an egg or a chick the local magpie larks were sitting on eggs just a few metres away their strident shrieking had little effect on the currawongs the local honeyeaters red wattlebirds new holland honeyeaters and a solitary singing honeyeater all kicked up a ruckus and the nesting common starlings joined in the protest as well after a few minutes the currawongs moved on elsewhere several of them have passed through my property in the days since but the protests were much more subdued grey currawong grey currawong grey currawong juvenile grey currawong juvenile grey currawong older posts admin login contents copyright 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