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Birds

Old World Sparrow

House sparrows were introduced to eastern Australia from Britain between 1863 and 1870 according to Birds In Backyards. (This is another bird destroyed on sight in Western Australia.)  Sparrows are large finches. They breed all year round, concentrating on Spring and Summer. Male and Female bond for life.

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I’ve just read about the Eurasian Tree Sparrow. On introduction, it never spread like the house sparrow and is confined to southern New South Wales and Central Victoria. I think I’ve seen them here, too.

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Thanks for looking.

Do have a great weekend.  🙂

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Late yesterday, I took these photos through the window by my back door. Of course, there were a lot of photos and a lot of choices to be made about what to share. So, in the end, I chose the photos based on the number of sparrows – the first image with the required number, regardless of focus!

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Sparrows are pretty little birds, and one I tend to disregard as ‘only a sparrow’. They put on a magnificent show for me.
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I hope the coming weekend holds promise for you. I have a cold. Lots of coughing and sniffing – and snivelling!

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Thanks for looking.   I hope the sparrows made you smile. Did you count them?

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And then there were eight

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Rainbow Lorikeets

Hello all, sorry I haven’t been posting much. I’m still flat out  with the finishing touches to my book (see christinejrandall.com) though I did take some time out on Sunday to catch up with laundry, vacuuming, and washing the dog.

I don’t see the lorikeets as much since I stopped putting seed out, but I hear them in the flowering gum trees by our house. This time of the year, we get the red-and-blue parrots (crimson rosellas) at the ornamental cypress in our yard. They dig seeds from the little round cones. They are usually too fast to photograph but the lorikeets are much braver and let me get close with the Nikon D3000.

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The lorikeets refused to oblige me by sitting in a sunny spot. The lighting was a bit odd, being late in the day with lots of shadows. I had a bit of a fiddle with GIMP software to bring the birds out from their background.

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Thanks for looking. Do have a good day.   🙂

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