Eastern Rosellas occasionally visit my property, they used to nest in the hollows of the huge old Mahogany Gums (Eucalyptus botryoides) but I haven’t noticed nests there for a few years.
Eastern Rosella (Platycercus eximius)
Eastern Rosellas’ colours are exquisite. The more I look at this image the more I appreciate its beauty. Its head, neck, upper breast and undertail are a rich red, set off by bright white cheek patches. Its underparts go from clear, bright yellow into a soft, pastel green before turning blue-green at the tail – I keep looking at that transition and wish I was an artist with the skills to recreate the colours on paper. Their shoulders are bright blue and their upper parts are a yellowish green with black patches. Young Eastern Rosellas have yellowish-orange bills rather than the off-white of the adult bird in the photograph.
Crimson Rosellas are daily visitors here, they visit more often than the Easterns, in fact they’re calling now and four have just landed in the tree above the birdbaths. I must remind myself never to take their beauty for granted.
Happy birding
Kim
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