Early Morning Feeding Frenzy
Early this morning about 30 Lorrikeets went into a deafening feeding frenzy
in the flowering palms just outside the bedroom balcony door. Nothing else
to do about the unexpected early alarm than to get out of bed and shoot them.
They were mostly hidden in among the flower sprays and I would not have
known their numbers had they not taken fright at something I did not see
and all flew off in every direction before returning to to feast some more.
They seemed to have some sort of order as to who was eating what but
there were occasional vicious spats between them when one crossed an unmarked
feeding boundry.
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*chuckle* how lovely is that...................thank you for sharing. I got woken up by about 5 Hadeda Ibis sitting on our roof, shouting at 5.15 am, it was barely light yet and the performance was deafening. When I went outside to take a picture, they all flew off, shouting some more. I was up now, so went and made coffee. *yawn*
ReplyDeleteNo birds in this cold LOL my son loved these. It was nice to see while ee were waiting for the bus in the dim gray cold an snow thank you :)
ReplyDeleteNoisy things !
ReplyDeleteThey are beautiful, we have some here among the Quaker parrot flocks.
ReplyDeleteThe encounter started your day right (I hope)...few creatures announce themselves. wonderful photographs!
ReplyDeletewonderful captures Keith
ReplyDeleteI did not like the uintrusion to my sleep but that was soon forgotten as I watched them. Thanks for dropping by and you comment!
ReplyDeleteBirds have no sense of time nor consideration!!
ReplyDeleteHey cool - happy he liked them.
ReplyDeleteExcellent shots of beautifully coloured alarm-clocks :-))
ReplyDeleteI bet you were high on this experience for hours. I would have got a real kick! What a way to wake up!
ReplyDeleteThis looks fabulous...I love it! Love the pics with the beautiful green birds and the palm you describe as flowering. I've rarely been more captured by any blog than by this one :-)
Way cool! Seems like a feeding frenzy going on there.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful experience and I must say Keith, these are the most beautiful bird pictures I have seen in a long time.
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