The Big Bush Garden is a palette of colour at the moment with the Grevilleas of all different kinds and colours in flower. The flowers, rich in energy-rich, sweet nectar, are attracting lots of different honey eaters who are feasting on the flowers. They include Lewin's Honeyeater (photo above)
This guy has been hanging around for a couple of weeks now, the Noisy Friarbird
One of my favourites, the eastern spinebill. I watched these for a while as they flitted about one of the comb-flowered grevilleas and then into the neighbouring jacaranda. They actually make quite an audible sound as they fly, you can hear their little wings flapping and its rather cute.
But the outstanding bird is the scarlet honeyeater. Remember last year how excited I was to see one lone bird in the garden? Well this year he's come back and brought a bunch of his mates and girlfriends with him. There were at least half a dozen, and probably many more, of these exquisite living jewels, feeding in a couple of the grevilleas yesterday and today. They are completely beautiful. I'm so lucky!
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I'm very jealous. The only one of those we get around here is the Eastern Spinebill. That scarlet honeyeater is extraordinary- a living jewel as you say!
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