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Yesterday, in the early afternoon, I heard
persistent begging calls from a neighbour's Eucalyptus manifera and, on
inspection, was delighted to see a family party of Rainbow Lorikeets - two adult
birds, and three young. The young birds were huddled together, two of them
touching one parent and the other very close. The young birds had
dark bills, with pale yellowish tips, and were already quite adult-coloured in
appearance, though generally paler in the breast with fewer red splashes. Their
tails were quite short still, about 2-3cm. I presume the family bred in the
vicinity of the nearby Hawker flats, where suitable hollows exist and where
the birds are regularly fed. b
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