Rainbow Lorikeet

[Yisehaq]

Lovely bird and nice work!

[Runmonty]

Thank you everyone for your comments. I think most credit should go to the bird - it is easy to make nice photos with an attractive model

Very nice! Love the second one especially! They have such personality. Their beaks are like flower blossoms in their own right. These guys are nectar feeders are they not?

Birdsinbackyards.net tells me they are nectar feeders The Rainbow Lorikeet mostly forages on the flowers of shrubs or trees to harvest nectar and pollen, but also eats fruits, seeds and some insects., but my first hand experience is at my former home where they used to eat into my apples and plums. As soon as the fruit was ripe a hoard of them would ravage the fruit and strip the tree in couple of days. I wished I had taken a video of the tree where I took these photos on the weekend, as these birds were there in their dozens and made the loudest racket. Not nice dinner party guests.