Birds in the Backyard

So now we've been in the new house for a three weeks, I'm getting to know the local wildlife.
Apart from the miner birds, there are lots of other birds that hang out in our backyard.
In the morning, it is particularly active. And you can hardly hear the passing trains above the various bird chirping and squaking.
There are galahs, that come and feed on the oval behind the house. They don't make much noise and they don't come very close to the house, so Mum Dr Kat hasn't got a picture of them yet so I've got one off the internet.Then there are crows that are huge! You know they breed everything big over here. And they are very noisy.

And my uncle Steve spotted a pale face rosella in a tree the other day. Here's a photo of it, but it's a bit blurry as there wasn't too much time to take a photo.

And my favourites to watch are the rainbow lorrikeets, which are very busy and pretty noisy too. They are always around at breakfast time.

Our New House

I'm back online. After all the talk of boxes, it turns out we've moved again. It's not much fun moving and we've left Pete behind. It's hard leaving friends! And I don't think my mums are very pleased with me because I had an accident in the car on the way to our new house. The car will never smell the same again.

Instead of possums, there are lots of birds in the garden of the new house. You might say that's cat heaven but I've never much been one for birds. Tosca, on the other hand, was a great bird hunter in her day but she seems to have met her match with the noisy miners in our back yard. The Australian Museum describes them as "bold and curious" birds and another website has a page called Noisy Miners - agression in the suburbs. That probably tells you something about what these birds are like. The first time Tosca ventured outside the house, a whole group of them came charging towards the house making loud noises. Tosca was back inside within seconds. So I'm guessing that there's no birdy num-nums for Tosca for a while.