Another afternoon spent in the garden, camera in hand watching the pink and grey galahs as they finish their day off nibbling on the acacia seed pods in the garden.
The are a loud bunch, squawking frequently.
I really enjoy watching them, the way they use their feet to hold the seed pods, using them like hands as they eat.
To me they always seem to have a sparkle in their eyes and a smile on their beaks.
They really have a light happy energy about them and often they can be seen hanging upside down on a branch clowning around.
Many people here in Western Australia don't like them in their gardens because of the mess they make.
Scattered on the ground are thousands of seed pods, but as I see it, they are simply doing as nature intended, they are fed and the empty seed pods turn to mulch.
The cycle of life in action.
I also got a single shot of a tiny honey eater high up in my gumtree, well hidden, taking a short breather for a few minutes. The honeyeaters are perhaps one of the hardest of the birds coming to the garden to photograph as they rarely stay still.
Towards the end of the afternoon as evening began to descend and night drawing closer a group of corellas joined the galahs in their feast.
Corellas and the pink and grey galahs will often be seen together, sometimes a lone corella takes up residence with a family of galahs.
The corellas are a lot noisier than the galahs, they will often squawk at me as I walk around the garden, wings out as they do their best to appear intimidating trying to look threatening.
I normally smile at them as they do look rather comical, not threatening at all.
This evening though they were happy to eat, no squabbling just lots of crackling to be heard as they broke apart the seed pods to eat the tasty seeds within.....
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