I've heard the big sulphur crested cockatoos overhead and seen tiny wrens in the vegetation next to the train line. Some lorikeets eat the berries on the street trees.
I've not seen any pigeons but we do have doves. The pictures are of a baby dove. It was late in the afternoon when I saw it on the fence, so pictures are blurry. That was a few days ago. I saw it again today with its mother, (guessing here). Today was cold and wet and it was sitting on the fence, quite miserable with fluffed up feathers. In the lower picture it's sitting near the edge of the fence wondering if it should fly. Mum had flown to the fence on the other side of the yard. It did eventually take off and land somewhat awkwardly on the fence next to her.
There is also another hormonally challenged dove which has been building a nest in the blackberries hanging down from the train line since we moved here, just before Christmas. It continually brings twigs and grass for the nest, but is frightened of the vegetation moving. Sometimes it actually lands, other times it's scared away when the breeze from a passing train makes the blackberries move and sway.
2 comments:
My, you are very observant! I would rarely notice little details like that!
We have lots of birds - the lorikeets that came down from the mountains in the fires of 2001 and never left, a huge flock of corellas, lots of crows, magpies and currawongs. Occasionally we hear kookaburras or see pelicans flying overhead; rarely, but most exciting, I see eagles!
We have doves at our house and at the dam lots of black and white cockatoos and kookaburras and lorikeets too!! They can be Very Noisy when they are in big flocks.
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