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       From The Bird Lover 1957 (Maurice)
       By: archives1 Date: May 7, 2023, 10:05 pm
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       01/03/1956
       I watched a budgerigar picking up grass seeds just outside our
       gate. There was a nest of these parrots in a dead tree, but too
       high for me to inspect. The head and the sides of its wings are
       yellow, the tail is a grey colour and the rest of the plumage is
       green. Our neighbours have a pair that nested. They told me that
       when the young are born, the father feeds both mother and young
       because the mother doesn’t come off the nest until the young
       have feathers.
       10/04/1956
       A lovely white spoonbill was standing on the edge of our swamp
       and gazing into the water. It was all white except for a yellow
       bill and yellow legs. This bird seems to like company because it
       was with two white-faced herons when I saw it. Spoonbills eat
       yabbies and other pond creatures.
       18/05/1956
       A dainty grey fantail was sitting gracefully on our grape vines
       catching small sucking insects. He is practically all grey with
       white under the throat and there are two white bars on the
       wings. This bird is not as common as the black-and-white fantail
       and it doesn’t stay here very long.
       09/06/1956
       In our fig-tree a white-plumed honey-eater was tasting some old
       figs. It tried to drive the sparrows away, but without success.
       Last year they built in the tecoma and reared two young ones. It
       has a white stripe sloping away from the eye. Apart from a
       greyish breast it is practically all olive-green. It eats
       insects. Once I saw it run its beak down the branch of a rose to
       get the aphids. These pretty birds love honey and will cling in
       any position, even upside down, to get it from the blossoms.
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