Dirk's having fun with his new bird lens. He thought that since I was spending so much time looking at birds, he needed to have a lens to take close-up bird shots. I'd say he's having quite some success!
Here's a new visitor to our abode, a scaly-breasted lorikeet! We think we've caught a glimpse of one of these birds before, but this one came in for a drink from the baths. (S)he was travelling with a flock of rainbow lories, but is noticeably smaller than the others (22-24 cm vs. 25-32 cm) and has the pretty yellow "scales" and more all-over green than the rainbow lories. We also saw a little band of these guys playing in the horse trough at Mt. Barney. There's several other species of lorikeets, maybe we'll get lucky and have a"Little Lorikeet" visitor next. 
Here's a brush-tailed possum in one of our backyard trees, caught in the act! Our temporary "flattie" (short for flat-mate) had an awesomely powerful (portable) bicycle light that we used for "night-spotting" critters. We also found some flying-foxes (bats) and insects big enough we could see their eye-shine, which is the easiest way to spot critters at night.
The view of the US Senate from overseas.....
We just can't get enough of our Rainbow Lorikeet visitors. I think they look like little supermen strutting around in their blue shorts with their shoulders back as if they were sporting a superman cape. Don't they look like they're ready to take on the bird world with a bit of attitude?!
Just another World Heritage rainforest waterfall with a huge tree at its base to play on...
No comments:
Post a Comment