I want candy

The more timid sap suckers wait for the very rare moments when the lorikeets are busy elsewhere. They try to make up for it though.

Sluuuuurrrrrp!!

 

The branch is being ferociously stripped back by the local wildlife. On the 16th it was lavishly profuse. 

Insatiable

The lorikeets totally dominate this food source.

 

 

Unapologenetically pwned!!

Sugar time

Nature is ruthless when it's time to eat

 

  

And while ever there is a reliable source of food,  the most ruthless will get the most.

 

And don't they know it!!

 

  

  

  

I didn't realise how camera friendly these birds were.

Just can't decide

which one to eat next.

 

  

So many to choose from.

 

Return of the native

The heat wave returned on New Year's Day and so did the dehydrated bird. Why just that one?

This time I put out some water in a plastic tray on the ledge, then sprayed water toward and around the area. The bird picked up the smell of the water quickly. After a brief internal struggle it came onto the ledge and quickly drank its fill at one end of the tray while I tried not to disturb it with camera clicks and movements of the blinds and so on. I was lucky to get even these images.

Very thirsty, very skittish, with beady eye!

The tray of water is up ahead, obscured by the vegetation. It has already had a massive drink.

Leaping to a nearby branch, me and camera in discreet pursuit, it excitedly bobbed up and down and screamed for a few seconds, perhaps thanking me, perhaps berating me, then flew off.

And that was that.