Thanks to everyone for your kind thoughts yesterday. I am pleased to say that I have got my own head back again today. The one I was wearing yesterday really didn't fit as good as my own. It took till quite late in the evening before my headache finally cleared so I haven't been able to catch up on your photos. I will try and catch up a bit tonight.
Today's photo is of a female koel and she came down for a drink in our bird bath. I couldn't get too close because she is very timid, but I was lucky enough to get a couple of shots of her before she flew away again.
This Koel is one very naughty lazy lady - no matter how beautiful she looks. Our famiiy have been staying at our Mallacoota house and there is an immature Koel there being fed by a Red Wattle bird. so Koels are like Cuckoos. How the Wattle birds don't wake up to it and end incubating and raising a huge foreign chick is beyond me.
You did a good job of being quick on the trigger to get these two great shots.
@ethelperry Thanks Ethel. I agree Koel's really are lazy. I feel sorry for the red wattle bird feeding a chick this size. We have had a male koel appearing in one of our trees for a few weeks calling out for a mate and it looks as though one has turned up now.
A sort of cuckoo. Bird then......I thought for a minute @ethelperry had got the gun out ...ha ha! It is a beauty, the wattle birds must be very maternal, there are always some who get away doing little in life!
You sure do get a variety of birds in your garden you lucky thing. You also get some excellent shots of them . I keep showing people the one of the colourful ones on the whitish tree( great description sorry!)
@julzmaioro Thanks Julia, this is a female koel, the male is black with a red eye and they are cuckoo family. I pity the poor birds who get one of their eggs in the nest. The chicks are huge.
@happypat Ha ha, I think Ethel has got her gun out. Koel's aren't too popular because they dump their eggs on other poor birds and they end up feeding these huge birds.
@chimfa Ha ha thanks Jane. The strange thing is I know what you are talking about. That's a worry. I know the photo you mean it is the one with the rainbow lorikeets in the frangipani tree isn't it.
@darthkitty Thanks Kat. I have got a couple of koel tail feathers they are beautiful aren't they. I have got a wedge tail eagle feather too. I love feathers.
You did a good job of being quick on the trigger to get these two great shots.