It’s been an exhausting few weeks with sick babies, car troubles, lurking termites and run-off continuing to inundate my place. On a brighter note a male fairywren has appeared proudly sporting his breeding colours.
The male fairywren in my garden was too fast to photograph as he zoomed around the garden with a couple of females and a non-breeding male. This shot is one I took at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Cranbourne with the red sands of the arid garden as a background and kangaroo paw as the perch. I’m hoping the local family will nest in the middle of a large lomandra as they have for the past couple of years. I’ve also known them to nest here in long grasses and in juncus.
Other signs of spring are literally blossoming around me, including fruits trees and wattle trees. And the bird song is ramping up. Ravens are already nesting and the Grey Shrike-thrush are singing even more loudly than usual.
Happy birding my friends, Kim
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