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For years and years we’ve had these things flying over far above the tree tops. But they would never actually come down. As I kid I tried to devise and engineer various means to get them down, namely, bird feeders and the like. Though they could never actually see from far above the tree tops that the feed was here. However, more recently they have found their own food on our property in the form of a flowering gum tree that was planted in more recent years. No doubt, it is far more healthy for them as well than becoming dependent on human provided feed.

They also like to feed on our silver birch trees at this time of the year and they have been seen in our silver birch trees before. Though this year we’ve the frequent visits have lasted for a far more prolonged period.

Now just for fun, who wants to guess the species? Sorry, no prizes for the first person to guess it right though.

Edit: Since nobody wanted to guess (even though the answer is pretty obvious), they are Rainbow Lorikeets.

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