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Oh my goodness, lirralirra is late (though it is still Friday in most places). I wanted to share some shots I took today but I lost track of time due to a Cabbage ‘Pink’ Butterfly (I’ll share a photograph of that too).

I see New Holland Honeyeaters just about every day but I don’t often see one spreading its tail feathers like the one in the shot above. I love the way it shows the combination of yellow, black and white.

The pattern is often the same at my birdbaths. To start with one lone New Holland turns up, bathes, splashes, drinks and heads off. Within a minute or two a troupe turn up. Today there were seven carrying on and making me smile.

I especially like the shot above and the way it highlights so many of the bird’s feathers and the way it is fluffed so beautifully.

And here’s the butterfly, an amazing looking Cabbage ‘Pink’! I’m hoping to find out more about it, so far all I’ve found is a post from 2015 which didn’t have any answers. There were theories about staining relating to tracking research but no evidence of any such studies taking place. Fascinating. Maybe it’s some kind of chromatic aberration. Please let me know if you have any ideas.

Stay safe, happy birding, Kim

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