I enjoy all the bird song that I hear in my yard. However, seeing and photographing the birds is much more problematic. Sometimes you can get lucky and the other morning while I was watching out the window I saw that the callistemons were flowering again. It had been so dry that the first flowers hadn't lasted very long but some good rain showers had brought the flowers out again. It looked like a flock of little birds were enjoying them and they were all dancing up in the top of the trees. It was very early so the light was perfect!
First here are the callistemon trees and flowers.
There were little birds up in the top of the trees and definitely enjoying the feast! There were more creamy-white flowers and more birds up there but it was the wrong angle for me to get photos so I tried for the ones that came down the tree among the branches. The birds were White Cheeked Honeyeaters - and they are tiny!The book says 16-19cms
I really wanted some photos with sky behind the birds so I moved over to the tree with the red flowers which was not so tall. Ah! Much better photos!
There were also little Brown Honeyeaters. They are about the same size. 12-16cms
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Hello, the blossoms are beautiful. They remind me of the bottlebrush blooms here. Your Honeyeaters are beautiful birds. Wonderful collection of photos. Have a happy week!
ReplyDeleteIt's so nice when there are adequate blooms to attract the birds. Your blossoms are lovely and so are the birds.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed all the shots of the birds.
ReplyDeleteWow! Awesome photos of those tiny birds in the flowers blooming ~ A feast for them and us!
ReplyDeleteHappy Week to you,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
the parrots have been snapping off flowers in my garden. I love to have birds, but I wish they wouldn't do that! Have a great week.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous bird shots!
ReplyDeleteNice to see the birds that come to your yard, wish we had White-cheeked Honeyeater in our yard.
ReplyDeleteoh yes, they have such vibrant red colours those flowers, we have them here too and the Tuis seem to love them.
ReplyDeleteI think I did see both of them. I loved the honeyeaters. So sweet all of them :) Nice shots! They were not easy to capture. :)
ReplyDeleteHoney eaters are of course not a family of birds that occurs here. It would be rather nice if they did. At the first picture I was interested in their size and surprised when you quoted 12-16cms. That's quite a feat to get your photos of such tiny birds.
ReplyDeleteMany years ago I had a red bottle bush plant growing in the conservatory but it suddenly died off, no Honeyeaters though! The last three photos against the sky worked very well.
ReplyDeleteYou really got some good shots with the red flower and the brown honey eater.
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