Phhhhhhtttt

Mum and dad rainbow lorikeet with their three young uns from this season having a feast on our window sill. For me, one of the most distinctive sounds of summer is the laryngitis like screeching of the baby lorikeets.

As an aside, I recently took part in the annual Australia wide backyard bird count and for the fifth straight year, the rainbow lorikeet was the most common bird species in Australian backyards. More than 2.7 million birds were counted during the survey time slot, 305,000 of which were rainbow lorikeets.

[Pam Knowler]

Such beautiful birds! They look like they are having a good chat with each other! Great capture!

[judith deacon]

They might be common but are such beautiful and colourful characters. Thanks for your email, will respond shortly.

[Jane Anderson]

Every aspect of this photo is wonderful!

[Valerie Chesney]

Great capture...they are so entertaining & noisy.

[Lou Ann]

Their colors are amazing.

[Elyse Klemchuk]

This is wonderful! Such a treat for me on a cloudy, cold day.

[Carole G]

pretty but noisy!

[Denise Wood]

A terrific capture of these beautiful birds - and ha ha, I posted them today too :) Hope to see more of you on here too! fav

[CC Folk]

These birds are so colorful...fav!

[Peter]

Superb capture Terry full of wonderful detail and colour, for a little bird they are very vocal but so pretty we can forgive then, nice to know they are doing well :)

[Merrelyn]

Fabulous capture Terry, unfortunately they're becoming quite common over here too !

[Poppo Livy]

@merrelyn The results for WA were:
1. Australian Raven
2. New Holland Honeyeater
3. Yep, you guessed it, Rainbow Lorikeet

[Denise (lyndemc)]

I have little brown sparrows as the most common bird visitor to my yard. Your visitors are so much more colorful. I confess envy...

Thanks for the welcome back - it's really good to be here again. I'll have to hunt up those pics you tagged me in.

[Sheralee S]

What a great capture! Love this bits flying about. Glad to see you're posting :)

[Sam]

How can you tell Mum and Dad from the kids?