February 3 - Busy

I just had to get back to the birds :)

A parent's work is never done - and this mother oriole has been busy feeding, feeding, feeding - I am amazed at the size of the grubs she can fit into those babies! She also cleans the nest, picking up baby droppings and flying away with them. The family have flown the nest now - great timing as it is raining buckets and I don't feel like standing in the rain holding the camera to my eye for half an hour just to get a couple of shots... but it was addictive watching the little ones grow. Missed the last ones of babies balancing on the edge of the nest and flapping around as I had manually focused and bumped it off a bit as I leaned against the tree - blurry babies :(

Photos show her feeding babies over about a week so you can see the little ones growing

January 22 - Big and small

Big and small ... the olive backed oriole down by the river has 3 chicks in her nest - so tiny compared to her, yet soon they will be fledged and grown. (you just knew it would be another bird photo didn't you!) so to make up for all the birds - mother and foal grazing in the paddock have almost identical markings :)

January 19 - Beauty

Beauty - finally we start on B!

As usual I'm going to be a little obscure because 'beauty' surely is in the eye of the beholder. Here are some faces that maybe only a parent could love :) baby thrush, wagtails and orioles ... and a brush turkey teen who is beautiful in unexpected ways...

The oriole baby is currently growing in its nest near the river behind our house, I think there are at least two hatchlings, but yesterday was the first time a little head popped up for me on my daily photo excursion. The parents are feeding the little ones what seems like massive quantities of insects and I am looking forward to watching them grow and taking some special photos.