Here is my offering for the Weekly Photo Challenge – the very colourful Rainbow Lorikeet
This bird is a true parrot, and can be found all down the Eastern coast of Australia from Queensland to South Australia.
They fly in large flocks and when they nest for the night, their screeching is deafening as they search
out the branch of a tree. If you are trying to have a conversation with someone at the time, forget it!
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Barb…Absolutely breathtaking pictures…I can’t get over the very vivid and amazing colours of their feathers…Thanks for sharing them…
Thanks Rayya! We tend to take our colourful parrots for granted because we see them every day, but on reading all the comments from my blogging buddies, it has made me realize just how beautiful they are with their rainbow colours! And how fortunate we are to live in this country with our unique wildlife!
next week: we have the topic BROKEN – I hope you have no broken animal’s heart in your photo box, only a broken fence, showing that some sheep or kanguroos could escape?
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Hey Barb I don’t get the chance to travel much so seeing those beautiful and colorful birds are so warming. Thanks for stopping by my blog and being such a great friend during my move!
No worries Jackie – glad you are moved and settling in to your new place.
The birds here are awesome – so colourful (and noisy)!
Hey Barb! It’s ashame they get such a bad rep! They’re so cute! I think it’s the owner who should get a bad rep for bringing them up that way!! Nice post!
Thanks Stephanie!
Barb, I love your new blog-its very creative ! The photos and colors of the parrots are beautiful. Like your FB Fanpage too-thanks for sharing !!!
Thank you so much Penny!
Hi, Barb. Your country is so blessed with a lot of beautiful creatures. The colors of the parrots stunned me for a while. As if nature painted them with bright, primary colors. What a sight it must be to be surrounded by them . What a colorful post. Thanks for sharing them.
We are blessed here, we have so many unique animals and birds and sometimes I think we take them for granted until we hear comments like yours, and then realize just how fortunate we are!
You couldn’t have found a better illustration for the topoc, Barb! Aren’t they lovely?
Thanks Denise – they are very colourful!
Wow … what a bird! Almost unreal, to us here, thinking that these guys are around in the wild! Nothing could have been more fitting for the ‘colourful challenge’!
They are so common over here, we see them every day and think nothing of them! You should see our king parrot – pillar box red body with green wings, and our rosella parrot has a red body with blue tail and blue and black wings!
So gorgeous, amazing colours!
Thanks Vix!
We still get a lot of these in town when the gum tree or the bottle brushes are in bloom, but when we were on the farm they really flocked to get the sugar from the cane at harvest time.
Have you ever seen a “drunk” lorikeet? There were always many of them staggering around under the loco bins. Too much sugar! The “drunk” parrots were a sight for tourists at the Port.
A drunk lorikeet? That would be very funny Angela . . . I didn’t know too much sugar could affect them that way!
Beautiful Barb!!
I remember seeing the Rainbow Lorikeet cover an entire tree when I was in Australia. The tree had very few leaves so it was just a mass of colour. Unfortunately we couldn’t stop to take a picture because we were racing down the highway to catch the last ferry to Kangaroo Island. We got on the ferry with only minutes to spare!
Thanks Rose! So you saw them – then you know what I’m talking about – they really are all those bright colours, aren’t they? Glad you made it to the ferry!
How beautiful!
Thanks for stopping by Thea!
this bird has chosen a wonderful rainbow design dress!
Haha, I like that!
Brillant, gorgeous colors, exquisite, such great photo’s
I wish I could take the credit for the photos, but they are not mine; the ones I took didn’t come out as good and didn’t show their colours off.
Love the colors! Hey? This is Stephanie, from When in the country? I’ve changed it around a bit. Let me know what you think? I’m not sure which is my url, so, I’ll give you both of the ones I have. lol…Sorry…http://mylifencolor.wordpress.com or http://lifeasiknowit.wordpress.com So sorry about all the confusion.
Amazing colors! Great entry for this week’s photo challenge. Are these pics that you took?
The photos I took didn’t show off their colours, so I had to ‘borrow’ these onesI
They don’t look real, they look like they’ve been dipped in rainbow paint pots!
Extraordinary — like so much else in Australia.
That’s a great description of them – they do look like they’ve been dipped in rainbow paint pots, but believe me, they are very real!
Gorgeous birds. Hugs
How beautiful!!!
Thank you, they are beautiful!
OH MY! They are beautiful. Our poor black crows here would just hand their head in shame around these guys!!
These are magnificent. I’ve never heard of a Lorikeet before. They certainly are colorful.
Very colorful birds! Good entry!
Thanks, they are beautiful but very noisy – gotta take the good with the bad!
What a colorful group of bird and vibrant too… I wouldn’t want to be a colorless bird next to this lot…
They are stunning Elizabeth, and live up to their name!
Great Barb, I saw about 20 of them yesterday in someone’s driveway, they were feeding them, they looked so cool!
Hi Carolyn. They are an Aussie icon! Gorgeous colours!
How gorgeous!
They are so colourful, it’s hard to believe they are really like that – but they are!
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Wow! That’s a psychedelic bird! It almost looks like it’s been colorized.
Believe me, it’s as natural as they come Nancy! There are so many of them in some parts of Eastern Australia, that they are considered a pest.