I just can’t stop twitching!!
One of the nice things about a visit to mum’s is all the bird-life in the bush around the place. At least it’s a nice thing at this time of year when the sun doesn’t rise too early, and the dawn chorus still starts at a reasonable hour!
This time for some reason there seemed to be a few more varieties of birds around, or maybe I just had more time to stare out the window or to go out and track them down. I can state definitively that while we were there I managed to spot:
- A huge number of Wax-eye/Silver-eyes
- Many European Greenfinch
- A family or two of Tui, including a couple that were quite happy to come close and display themselves to me
- The usual complement of Blackbirds
- A couple of fantails, including a black fantail that I didn’t even know existed. These were just way to fast in the dim light of the dawn/dusk bush to even get close to a photo of
- House Sparrows, of course
- Noisy Bellbirds
- A few Doves
- Some starlings
- A Chaffinch or two (not as many as last time though)
- A couple of Wood Pigeons (I think it was two different ones, not the same one twice)
- Oh, and 3 chickens!
Apparently I missed out on at least the Brown Creeper, Grey Warbler and the Song Thrush, but that only gives me something to track down next time! And there’s still a large number of other birds to track down elsewhere too. Who needs a job!
