Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Birds!

For my birthday (Happy Birthday, me!) my parents gave me some money to spend as I wished, so I ordered three native bird nesting boxes from La Trobe University and they arrived today. Of course, there are plenty of tree hollows out in the National Park and we do have lots of birds visiting our garden, but I'm keen to have them nesting here so we can watch them.

Bird boxes


One's for rosellas or lorikeets; one for large parrots; and one for pardalotes. The parrot boxes both have "exotic bird excluders", the thin pieces of wood partially covering the entrances. Parrots like to chew open entrances to their nests, while exotics can't, and won't fit in. The pardalote entrance is too tiny for other species.

These are the birds most likely to move in, just in case you're unfamiliar with them. I've seen all of them in our garden over the last year.




















Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo,
Calyptorhynchus funereus















Rainbow Lorikeet,
Trichoglossus haematodus





Crimson Rosella, Platycercus elegans












Eastern Rosella, Platycercus eximius








Bird images: Wikimedia Commons.

I'll post images of the boxes in situ, once we've done the ladder thing, and of course post updates when there's avian activity.

1 comment:

  1. I think my favorite birds in your post would have to be the Galah.

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