Friday 7 November 2014

Green and Gold

As you might know there are been lorikeets galore around this area, there still are if you know where to look. Luckily enough for me, just around the corner is a place they liked to hang out until all the flowers were spent. 

There weren't just the rainbow lorikeets either but also scaly-breasted lorikeets (Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus). Now if it is at all possible they are even more flighty and bouncy than the rainbow variety. Maybe it is because they seem to be smaller, maybe it is because they have been into the red cordial. It seems that they have a love of bottle brush.


Now I thought rainbow lorikeets were hard to capture with them being full of energy and often a little tricky to see but these fellows are harder. They seem to hop around the tree more and they are mostly green making them very good a camouflage (that is if they would sit still to hide).


They are pretty cute and nowhere near as showy (or as noisy). The yellow 'scales' on them are a little understated but the closer you look the more you realise they have the colours of their relative, just in smaller amounts with flecks of red and blue mixed in with the yellow.


They also, I found out, have a glossy blue/green head. The blue comes out in the sun.


It nice to watch them flitting around but when the rainbow lorikeets were around they often had to vacate, back to the bottle brush.






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17 comments:

  1. Really beautiful photos. I bet they are fun to watch.

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    1. Thanks and they are fun to watch and try to keep an eye on.

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  2. you've done well to capture these birds. The parrots get into our bottlebrush - they seem to just snip off the flowers and drop them on the ground. I wish they wouldn't be so wasteful. LOL
    Have a great weekend and thank you for stopping by my blog this week. I love that name "Aggy's Pants"!

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    1. Thanks, they are fast movers. Your parrots sound a bit destructive. I haven't seen them do that here. I enjoy seeit what you've been seeing on your blog. I have no idea where the 'aggy's pants' thing comes from but it is something our family says for sure. I wonder if anyone else knows this 'name'.

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  3. Great shots of a cool bird. I love the photo with his face in the flower!

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    1. Thanks. Face in a flower is how they seemed to be most if the time. Must have been a good feast.

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  4. Awww... how lovely they are ..... but, oh, wow.... how did you spot them at all in the same coloured shrubbery? ... total camouflage....

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    1. I was looking for other birds and there they were. They have great camouflage but they move too much for it to work well.

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  5. yes a lovely bird which I have only managed to see a few times. Great series of shots. Have a great weekend.

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    1. Thanks, I hadn't really seen much of them either until recently. Enjoy your week.

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  6. Nice looking bird. I see them once of twice a year near my house. The general feeling is that they are a small feral population that has come from escaped cage birds.

    I still like seeing them though!

    Cheers - Stewart M - Melbourne

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    1. Feral or not I like them too. There seem to be a lot here and apparently they can be found all down the coast of Qld and northern NSW in woodlands. They seem to be hanging out in some gums that are in flower in a park near my place. They are very busy and pretty noisy. There is the odd rainbow one dropping in on them but they don't seem to mind.

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  7. Wonderfull faun aflora, greeting from Belgium

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    1. It is and very interesting. Thanks for coming by.

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  8. for a few moments I had the opportunity to see them. Great shots!

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    1. Thanks. They are flighty things that is for sure. Thanks for looking in.

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  9. I just love it when the parrots come visiting my garden. I heard a different bird call this morning and it was a colourful parrot.

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