sandeyeVariety of birds
September 7th 2007 19:59
I was thinking how lucky I am to live in a home where there are so many different types of bird that visit our yard. We live in a city center, yet having a large back yard means we get a lot of birds visit. Many local older style homes are being knocked down and turned into flats, without gardens. This means that the birds seek new territory, and often come to our place!
Baby1 was courting Brownie, spotted me at the window, flew up, swirled then stared in at me for a moment, and then flew back to Brownie. A couple of starlings were sitting on the fence watching the pigeons and a myna bird was hunting in the lawn. A little later on, I spotted a friendly female magpie-lark pecking in the grasses. I grabbed that camera of mine, and managed to shoot a few pictures before she went too close to the house to see. (I plan to post some of these on my blog next week, along with a relative section of text from my next book.) A few turtle doves were resting in the poinsettia, and on the fence, and a sparrow was pecking about under the carport.
Later on again, the city rock doves flew in to wait for seed-time, and spent their wait pecking in the lawn, resting upon the lawn, or sitting on the dunny roof, from where they stared into the kitchen at me, as I cooked dessert. Our show pigeons were resting on the carport roof, my windowsill, or the alcove above my room. They occasionally chased each other over the roof, sounding like hail!
As I did my yoga session in the other side of the house, I spotted a couple of shrike-thrushes in the umbrella tree, nibbling the red flower-seeds. When I returned to my room to study, I found three pigeons roosting on my windowsill, a flock or lorikeets flying noisily over the yard, and a few pelicans flying in V formation further out towards the ocean.
You never know what bird will appear next. However, you can be pretty sure that there will be a mass of pigeons at both breakfast and supper seed-times!
Baby1 was courting Brownie, spotted me at the window, flew up, swirled then stared in at me for a moment, and then flew back to Brownie. A couple of starlings were sitting on the fence watching the pigeons and a myna bird was hunting in the lawn. A little later on, I spotted a friendly female magpie-lark pecking in the grasses. I grabbed that camera of mine, and managed to shoot a few pictures before she went too close to the house to see. (I plan to post some of these on my blog next week, along with a relative section of text from my next book.) A few turtle doves were resting in the poinsettia, and on the fence, and a sparrow was pecking about under the carport.
Later on again, the city rock doves flew in to wait for seed-time, and spent their wait pecking in the lawn, resting upon the lawn, or sitting on the dunny roof, from where they stared into the kitchen at me, as I cooked dessert. Our show pigeons were resting on the carport roof, my windowsill, or the alcove above my room. They occasionally chased each other over the roof, sounding like hail!
As I did my yoga session in the other side of the house, I spotted a couple of shrike-thrushes in the umbrella tree, nibbling the red flower-seeds. When I returned to my room to study, I found three pigeons roosting on my windowsill, a flock or lorikeets flying noisily over the yard, and a few pelicans flying in V formation further out towards the ocean.
You never know what bird will appear next. However, you can be pretty sure that there will be a mass of pigeons at both breakfast and supper seed-times!
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