Another Christmas Day visitor! The Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus)

That is a wonderful photo Bernie.
You are SO lucky to have these as local birds to the gardens.

Louise .. you are so right ... we are spoilt as we do get to see beautiful birds like these on a regular basis ... perhaps we do take it all a little too much for granted!

How did you get such a good picture, aren't they nervy and flighty ?

No Louise ... this pair was apparently very used to people. They both just flew into the front yard of the villa, perched on a tree branch for a little while then flew down onto the patio chair. They both spent some time sitting on my nephew's arm while he held up a bunch of grapes for them to nibble one!
They were also very quiet which is a little unusual for this breed ... normally they screech very, very loudly!!

Amazing !
Do folks catch and keep them, in their own aviaries - if they're not afraid of people they wouldn't see the danger ? :-/

Yes unfortunately I'm sure this does happen ... once birds like these get used to people and getting close to people in order to get food, they would be easy to capture!

:-(
I don't like to think of that.
I hope they breed well in the wild or they'll become extinct out in the wild.

He's so lovely added to favs...

what a beautiful bird he is........such lovely colours.............

Thanks Carol and Holly ... again! ... but you're right ... the colours are terrific.

We only get to see them at our nearest zoological park. We buy little pots of nectar and the birds are all over us, fighting for it - great fun! lovely pic, Bern! :-))

Wow ! Wonderful Christmas day colour Bernieh.Hope you had a good Christmas and wishing you all the very best for 2010.x

Thanks BB .... had a lovely Xmas ... quiet but lovely. Looking forward to 2010 now ... hope it's great one for you and yours as well!

Its incredible, fantastic colours.

Bernieh:

WOW!!! Now that's a colorful bird!

All the colours of the rainbow, Yorkshire and Delonix ... it's so much brighter in real life!

Bernieh:

I know...I have seen these birds at the San Diego Zoo. They're incredible!

That is beautiful! The most 'colorful' bird I've ever seen around here would be a cardinal or a blue jay!

The name really fits this bird ... they are brilliant to see in real life Floralhead!

I bet!! I just love the bright colors. What a treat that would be to see!

They're a relatively small bird but very hard to miss!!

Best thing seems to be they're not scared so you get a pretty good view!

no birds around here would let you get close to them unless they are stupid pigeons! they don't care if you walk right by.

These birds will come to anybody if they think there's food involved ... the lorikeet above is wild and came in to get food from us without a care! Actually there were two of them and they both ate the grapes from my nephew's hand without a worry in the world.

actually they are alot like pigeons then but far more lovely to look at!