NigelWaring

We’ve been in our home for more than thirty years. Since moving in we’ve done the wrong thing and fed the wild birds, our reasoning is that if we hadn’t built houses on their land they would have more food than what they have now, we only give them just a small snack each morning and evening, its more like a social meeting. We have been thinking about moving to something like a retirement village where we will not have to do as much work to look after things, the thing is we will miss seeing these birds every day.

We have had more than 80 species visit us over the last 30 years but on most days we have about a dozen species visit us. The following pictures are the ones that visited us one day last weekend:





Blue Faced Honeyeater – this bird is resident in our part of New South Wales but we only saw it for the first time in our garden about three weeks ago.


Blue Faced Honeyeater


Blue Faced Honeyeater


Laughing Kookaburra – most people have heard of this bird, it has a very distinctive laugh that often happens around sunrise.


Sulphur Crested Cockatoo – looks lovely but makes a terrible squawking noise especially when it has to wait for food.


Bush Turkey – no relation to the other turkeys that are eaten around the world, this is purely an Australian species which is totally protected.


Bush Turkey


Masked Plover – I think these birds are great but someone else in our house does not.


Masked Plover

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Noisy Miner – haven’t got the spelling wrong, the early welsh settlers gave this one its name because its yellow eyes reminded them of coal miners. It can be quite aggressive and is sometimes called The Soldier Bird.


Australian Magpie – no relative to the European Magpie, totally different species. This one is highly intelligent, supposed to be in the top five in the world. This one is a female about 12 years old, it has probably produced about 20 young.


Rainbow Lorikeet – one of our more colourful birds but like many other parrots it makes a terrible racket at times and will not be chased away.

old.sparkles

Lovely photos Nigel. I haven't fed them here but we get a few visitors.

Dorothy

They're beautiful, Nigel. Hopefully whoever buys your house will continue feeding them.

Jilliebee

Great photos Nigel x

KJCherokee

No way would I ever invite a bush turkey into my garden - once they decide that it would be a good place to nest you will never get rid of them and they will destroy the garden.

Our favourites are the wagtails

carolinephillips

Great pics- we get all of those except the blue faced honey eater. However we wish we didn't get the cockatoos or the bush turkeys. Cockatoos are going for our windows again - they are so destructive. The bush turkeys scrape out lots of plants and are also destructive. We get king parrots which have beautiful plumage, (almost as magnificent as the Norwegian Blue ) and rosellas. We often hear the whip bird, but haven't seen it yet.

Molly Coddle

Excellent photos. The Kookaburra and the Rainbow Lorikeet are my favourites.

I didn't realise Magpies lived until that age.

renth

Great photos, I have a Rainbow lorikeet as a pet. Very noisy and aggressive but a fantastic character.