One Little, one Musk, and lots of Rainbow Lorikeets now in the tree you mentioned Peter - many thanks for your post. Took just over two hours to get a photo 😏
Ken
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> On 13 May 2021, at 5:24 pm, Peter <> wrote:
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> I almost hesitate to write this, as it seems a bit incongruous, but I'll describe what I saw/heard and you can judge for yourselves.
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> I was riding thorugh the bottom of Hackett at 3:30 this afternoon on the footpath that runs between Phillip Ave and Newton St when I heard a different parrot call.
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> I immediately thought Swifts but all I could see was Rainbow Lorikeets. But sure enough, there was the smaller one, short-tailed with golden edging and appearing all green-I didn't have my binos and it was about 10 metres up.
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> Still I was pretty sure it was Musk Lorikeet based on its size and lack of tail when compared to the swifts- and I know them from the coast. Additionally, I listened to its call on the phone app and it sounded like what I had initially heard. Oh well, not
a swifty, but still a pretty special bird for around here.
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> So, I was enjoying watching the 2 species of lorikeet feed on the flowering yellow box, when darned if, at the back of the tree on a dead branch out popped an even smaller lorikeet. I thought, wow, there can't be a little lorikeet too...just then a noisy
miner swoops in and pursues the tiny lorikeet and it gives a "chrr-chrr" call as it does a loop away from the tree while being pursued-definitely a little lorikeet.
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> So, there you have it-quite bizarre, but maybe the Musk and Little have teamed up? No sign of any lorikeets when I went past the tree an hour later although there were a fair few rainbows buzzing around Hackett in general.
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> Peter Miller
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