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A Morning With The Rainbow Lorikeets

A Morning With The Rainbow Lorikeets

Unfortunately with Brisbane being in Lock Down again Lindy and I had to cancel our day road trip on Wednesday but I didn't mind as the Lorikeets on our property kept us entertained. Here is just a couple of photos that I took yesterday. Hope everyone is keeping safe. They love to interact with us humans and some of them are very acrobatic and often enjoy hanging upside down. Showing off their feathers is their specialty

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White-Cheeked Honeyeater

White-Cheeked Honeyeater

A gorgeous little bird with its striking colors of yellow, black and white. White-Cheeked Honeyeater is only 16-18cm in size and lives, breeds and feeds in rainforest margins, eucalypt forests, watercourse vegetation, coastal scrubs, paperbarks, and wet heaths. The most similar species is New Holland Honeyeater They also source insects often hovering for them in the air. On the Whitye Cheeked Honeyeater link above there is a lot of information on the lovely little bird, well worth the read. They Breed April- Nov and they have just the one partner for the breeding season. (how lovely) or depending on nectar...

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Scarlet Honeyeater Cork Backed Coaster

Scarlet Honeyeater Cork Backed Coaster

We also have a limited number of a set of 6 matching square cork backed coasters featuring our Australian Scarlet Honeyeater. Coaster size W10.5 H9cm. They have a gloss finish and are heat resistant. Our cork backed placemat and coaster sets are sold separately. These are the images of the coasters. Free postage Australia wide. Dedicated to all the Australian Fauna and Flora lost in the 2019/2020 bush fires                                                                                    

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Scarlet Honeyeater Cork Backed Placemats

Scarlet Honeyeater Cork Backed Placemats

We have a limited number of a set of 6 cork backed placemats featuring our Australian Scarlet Honeyeater. It is the smallest of the Honeyeaters Placemat size: W33.5x H26cm. They have a gloss finish and they are also heat resistant. Free postage Australia wide. Dedicated to all the Australian Fauna and Flora lost in the 2019/2020 bush fires               

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Large Honeyeater Family

Large Honeyeater Family

There is 190 species of  Honeyeaters,roughly half of them are Native to Australia. Many Australian Native trees and plants are fertislised by the honeyeaters, plants such as Proteaceaer  and the Ericaceae and  Myrtaceae Unfortunately I haven't photographed all of them at this stage but hopefully will get many of them in our future road trips. The  Striped honeyeater just below was a delight when I spotted him in one of our native trees recently being only 21-23 cm in size but it did keep itself very well hidden in the thick growth. Another one I spotted for the first time...

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