Every year at the bottom of our property, four large umbrella trees suddenly burst into colour.
The beautiful red blossoms are lovely to see, and it is not surprising that large flocks of Rainbow Lorikeets descend in numbers on to this source of food for them.
The noise could be quite deafening especially when I went down closer with my camera.
I didn’t bother with a hide as the birds were up in the trees and too busy to be worrying about me.
I hadn’t thought of taking something to sit on the first time I went down but I certainly did from then on for other visits.
There were little sharp stones all over it, intermingled with some prickly undergrowth.
Over all I took quite a lot of photos, most of which were different each time, as the birds came out on different branches, sometimes reaching under the blossom, sometimes hanging on to one branch and reaching up to flowers that were above them.
On one particular day, a much smaller bird caught my eye.
It wasn’t colourful like the Lorikeets or the blossoms but, for me, it seemed an ideal Centre of Interest surrounded by all the red colouring.
It was a Dusky Honeyeater (pictured here in amongst the flowers) having a rest before it moved around to different blossoms some times being out of my line of sight.
I took extra photos of the Dusky and the Lorikeets so I had a good afternoon.
When I first went down to the umbrella trees, I was expecting that a whole range of birds may all come to the blossoms.
They are always in the trees near our house, but there was no sign of them while I was there at the umbrella trees.
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