There has been a flurry of 'weeding' in the neighbourhood with the council due to reinspect our properties next week. The neighbour had to remove a couple of tall holly trees along our fence line, surprising me with a more open view from my kitchen window.
Now I have a much clearer view of the birds which hang around to be fed there. Here are the ones I spotted in a half hour or so this morning.
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Lorikeet
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| Wattlebird |
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| Cockatoo |
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| Currawong |
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| Bower Bird |
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King Parrot
Unfortunately this bounty of birds has a price. Here is the latest calling card left by the cockatoos. |
As for my own weeding efforts. It was a terrible shock to see how much privet was down the back. We live on a double block with two street frontages. At the back is steep so we don't go down there and don't even drive down that street. Also there is a solid fence obscuring what is going on down there. I can tell you what has been going on ... privet growing and growing and growing. After several very hard days it is all cut down.
The tree guys are coming tomorrow to cut down the Portuguese Laurel tree and I will see what sort of gap that leaves in the garden.
What a colourful cast of bird visitors Joan Elizabeth, those pesky cockatoos eat the wood of my bird feeder too :) Weeds are the bane of the gardener's life Joan Elizabeth, sounds like you have your hands full. I must admit my neighbour has a tree that I would love to see removed, depending on the season it unloads leaves, flowers and nuts by the lorry loads 😉 oh how I wish it had snowed in Katoomba when we were there ✨
ReplyDeleteOur neighbour wanted one of our pine trees moved. We applied to council and they refused. I must confess to being glad because it is a giant that would have cost a fortune.
DeleteLove all the birds. We get all of them also at Winmalee, except for the Currawong. Haven't seen one of those yet in all my years living here. We have just had some clearing back of overgrowth, mostly honeysuckle and the transformation of our side passage is outstanding. We can now see right out to the front roadway. I am wanting to get into the garden and weed it, but too much rain today. Ah well, It will wait for another day.
ReplyDeleteThere was a rosella too but I missed photographing it. I have had just 4 days to do the cleanup because we were away. So I have been out working in the rain provided it was not bucketing down. Sooo exhausting.
DeleteOh, my goodness, what a job you have had and in the cold rain! Seeing all thes lovely birsds so often has to be a bonus.
ReplyDeleteMention of cold rain makes me remember how much I used to enjoy the warm rain in Qld.
DeleteI was admiring of all your birds until I saw the cockatoo damage. That's terrible!
ReplyDeleteRemoving trees can be transformative. I hope you'll be able to have a bit of a rest as this project draws to a close. It sounds like an enormous load of work.
Cockatoos are generally OK provided you don’t feed them too close to the house. We will have to wait a little longer to see what removing our tree does because it had to be delayed because of the rain.
DeleteYou have a lovely wealth of birds down your way.
ReplyDeleteIt is lovely but having so many big birds around I think we are seeing fewer little ones than we used to.
DeleteLove your bird-parade!
ReplyDeleteWe do too
DeleteA lovely collection of bird visitors.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I missed a few other regular visitors - rosellas and crested pigeons.
DeleteLots of birds who visit... they're always lovely. Those Cockatoos have such bad habits though!
ReplyDeleteCockatoos spread snips off the pine tree all over the garden path but that is better than them eating my house
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