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| Catching a lift with Mum (or is it Dad?)* |
* I have since read (Pizzey & Knight): "Male: bill and neck longer & straighter". So I guess it is Mum that is providing the ferry service!
The musings, photos and trip reports of a late-rising, fledgling birder from Melbourne, Australia. © Peter Shanley
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Swan Lake
It was all happening with lots of water, courting, nesting & cygnets at Swan Lake, Phillip Island.
* I have since read (Pizzey & Knight): "Male: bill and neck longer & straighter". So I guess it is Mum that is providing the ferry service!
* I have since read (Pizzey & Knight): "Male: bill and neck longer & straighter". So I guess it is Mum that is providing the ferry service!
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Rainbows
The silver princess is flowering and word has got around. When the noisy miners let them, we are getting close encounters with rainbow lorikeets in the front yard!
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| Rainbow Lorikeet, Trichoglossus haematodus |
