(Tigger and Ms F were talking about visitors to their garden which reminded me of these two from a few years ago)
October 2011 – Far eastern suburbs of Melbourne
Foothills of the Dandenong Ranges
Look what was on the front grass when I got home one afternoon
And yes, there are times of the year when our grass is an unintentional special mix of dandelions, daisies and various other bits and pieces😊
But that’s not what I want to show you lol
There they are
A pair of Crimson Rosellas looking for something tasty to eat
Crimson Rosella
Scientific Name:
Platycercus elegans
Featured bird groups:
Parrots
Not too concerned about the car to begin with
More interested in the nice dandelion clocks full of seeds – right there in front of them
Almost like statues – looking straight ahead
showing off their beautiful red heads and blue speckled wings and back
Uh Oh Looks like I’ve been sprung – mid mouthful as well
The one on the left was intent on lunch and was ready to dive straight in
The one closest to the car carried on moving about and munching
but still wasn’t sure if he saw anything or not
Still plenty to eat there but they left soon after
Don’t Forget – if you want to see it best……Click/ tap or finger slide to enlarge
Linking to Wednesday’s Words & Pics hosted by Denyse ….. Denyse Whelan Blogs.
Still Waters 
Beautiful things who are regular visitors here (and very welcome). They bring their young to visit us too.
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Now that is something I’d love to happen here – sadly I’m not set up to formally entertain visitors, I just enjoy their company when they drop in unannounced 😊
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We mainly get the green kind here. But we have had the crimson on occasion
Walking past my bottle brushes sometimes I almost get my head taken off as they whoosh past.
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I get a special thrill seeing them in the trees, it’s a peaceful pastime just stopping and watching them
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What gorgeous birds! Many thanks for sharing!
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Carol we are lucky that many of our wild birds are so colourful. We never take them for granted p.
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Wow, they are beautiful. I’ve never seen them before. They kind of resemble parrots.
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What beautiful birds to find wandering your front lawn!
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And they still bring a thrill when we see them Joanne
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Yes they’re part of the parrot family, we’re lucky to have so many colourful birds living in our suburbs as well further out of town. I’ve put a link about parrots in the post
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We have some stunning wilds birds in our literal back yards that others keep as pets. We are so lucky.
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Too right we are. I still stop and ‘stare’ when they visit.
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Wow! Those are pretty birds. Makes me wonder if they escaped from some owner. Linda in Kansas
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No they’re not escapees Linda – they are Australian native wild birds.
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Lovely visitors to have. I don’t think we’ve had rosella visitors to balcony but quite a number of other parrots.
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Lucky you- you’ll have a great view if they land on the balcony
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they are beautiful, also adorable, and i am thinking they knew you were aiming the camera at them. LOVE the colors on them. Red is a huge favorite of mine
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Your would have had a field day out there Sandra. Being wild I kept thinking they’ll be off any second so just kept on clicking and hoping for the best
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What beautiful birds. I had never heard of them. I love to watch birds so thank you for posting about them. I learned something new.
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Thanks for commenting Jane. That’s the beauty of blogs….we learn from each other in so many different ways
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Your visitors are much more colourful than ours. The best we can manage is the very occasional flash of kingfisher along the stream across the lane. We love your crimson birds. Great shots too.
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I suppose each country is different but you do seem to have a more varied variety of visitors than we do.
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Such lovely birds and you’ve captured them so well Cathy!
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One of those right place right time moments Debbie. I must have sat in the car for about 1o mins just clicking and watching through the (grubby) side window – didn’t dare open it though.
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Oh wow; what beautiful birds. We don’t have wild birds quite like that… though we do get bright red cardinals this time of year at our feeders.
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I see your red cardinals in so many o/seas blogs I’ve often wished to see one in the wild. There’s something about red plumage that’s different
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Oh they are gorgeous, Cathy. We get the Rainbow Lorrikeets where I live. Thanks for sharing your visitors with us. #WWandP
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They used to visit us as well Sue but I haven’t seen many this year at all. Suburbia is becoming too crowded and unfortunately the trend to have concrete gardens is becoming more widespread-
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Unfortunately that is true. I’m lucky where I live there are quite a few trees so still have birdlife around.
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Beautiful birds and great capture! x
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Thanks Min They have a habit of making us stop and stare don’t they
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LOVED seeing this…and yes to their cheekiness too. I love your grass mix!! Thank you for linking up for Wednesday’s Words and Pics on my blog. Always good to see and read one of your posts. Hope you return next Wednesday too. Denyse.
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A very unintentional grass mix…..looked interesting though….until The Golfer took off all their heads!
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Wow! Those are gorgeous birds! And they eat dandelions? That’s awesome. We could have used them in Illinois to control of dandelion population.
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