Backyard visitors
We get some interesting visitors to our backyard, in the form of native birds. We have an aviary with budgies, and they tend to scatter birdseed around which attracts other birds. Here’s a selection of some of those visitors.
My favourites – the Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos. They are quite common around Canberra and you often see large flocks of them grazing on the sides of roads, or in parks.
Rainbow Lorikeets are also fairly regular visitors. Its always a treat to spot them, because they’re so colourful.
Now for something we only see occasionally. King parrots.
We also get the usual suspects, the various black coloured birds, and black and white ones – which I lump together as crows and magpies respectively (which amuses my daughter who does know the differences between the various types of black and black and white birds – but then what am I to know …I always thought Golden Retrievers were just hairy Labradors until a couple of years ago, when I learned they are completely different breeds of dog). Galahs hang around fairly regularly, and in the non-bird arena, we get our share of possums, and even once had a kangaroo out in our street (and we’d be at least one kilometre from the nearest bushland).
But for something really unusual, check this out.
No, just kidding!
But seriously, I’d be interested to know what interesting/unusual/pretty visitors you’d had at your house. Let me know in the comments.
No interesting visitors for us. We have lots of possums, who eat to many of our trees though!
I wish I was even near birds like that!
Those are bird you only get to see in the zoo around here. See, up in the north we just have the regular birds like pigeons, blutits, magpies and polar-bear-birds…
Ah, well… I suppose bears don’t fly that easily, but it would be kinda funny if we had a few of them around, right?
Greetings from me and the Swedish pigeons!
I have a sneaking suspicion your Lorikeet is actually an Eastern Rosella – either way they are both very attractive birds. We are in Sydney and near Garigal National Park and enjoy a wide range of birdlife, but also the fruit bats which hang around the garden when the date palms are flowering. Sadly the “Kingies” are rare for us too. But you will find dozens of them in Manuka Park in the spring eating the plum blossoms. We see plenty of Sulphurs as well – which reminds me of a story in Canberra of a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo and a visiting CIA chief…another time maybe!
Oh at different times of year here the magpies will eat out of our hands. One day we actually had 3 of them come through our front door and they were eating rice cracker crumbs the kids had left on the carpet!!! I have photos somewhere I really will have to dig them out and post them!!
I have had a snake once, as soon as i saw him i ran as fast as i could, and it wasn’t funny at all, but i can’t help but laugh at the memory of it.