David de Groot 📸 @david@photog.social

Today's bird is the Grey Shrike-Thrush. It doesn't look spectacular like the Parrots, but it has a beautiful song.

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Our King Parrots dropped in for a feed today again (yesterday was wet and so I think they were off sheltered somewhere).

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Don't fret bird fans! Despite having to go in to the office today, I still came through with the goods.

Here's an unusual Australian Magpie with leucism (a condition that means the bird produces less melatonin than normal).

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Somebody decided to show off today before stealing the seed.

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After the procession of parrots, a Pied Currawong appears.

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The female King Parrot eventually turned up for a feed too.

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It's all happening at the feeder, Rainbow Lorikeet has joined the fun.

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and then the male King Parrot popped in for what was left of the seed.

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Cheeky Cockatoo came to visit and steal the seed this morning, while a Crimson Rosella kept its distance in the nearby foliage.

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It is cold (for Queensland) this morning and so the parrots managed to convince me to give them second breakfast.

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Some antics from the male King Parrot today.

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I forgot to post yesterday's new birdfeeder visitor - a Rainbow Lorikeet, who kicked the King Parrots off the feeder.

Lorikeets are the drunken louts of the bird world.

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Yes, more #KingParrot photos.

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You’re probably all sick of these Parrots by now, but they keep visiting so I keep photographing them.

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We popped out to Dayboro and Samford and when we got home, there were very expectant parrots hanging around hopeful for seed. So I spoke to them and told them I had to go inside to fetch the seed, and they seemed to understand.

Most of the shots are on the 200mm f/1.8 with 2x TC (400mm f/3.5) but I included one at 85mm f/1.2 to show the feeder in context.

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The bird feeder was quite busy this morning. Raiding Cockatoos and a fair bit of too and fro between the King Parrots and the Pied Currawong.

I even had a female Satin Bowerbird turn up, but she did not want to be photographed.

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On campus today and I found this bundle of cute-overload. A Mumma Brush-tailed Possum with a joey on her back.

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A Red-browed Finch from late yesterday afternoon, and my regular King Parrots from today. The parrots were shot over ethernet (i.e. I plugged the camera in to the network, connected to it via a web browser, and triggered from the comfort of my desk).

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Went back out and managed to sneak a shot of the Rainbow Lorikeet, and then I went for a walk down the road and got a magpie, and a crimson rosella, and another crimson rosella when I got back home.

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