my girl....

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Araminta
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my girl....

So far, so good. Third time lucky? Here is the girl sitting on the fence, checking if it's safe to go to the nest and feed her two tiny babies.

Roly
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Dear little soul!

Woko
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The tucker those wrens are feeding their young certainly shows the value of having diverse native habitat that suits a wide range of creatures.

Araminta
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rolyd wrote:

Dear little soul!

thanks Roly, I know, they are my favourite birds, I have followed the girl for a very long time. She had a husband, he lost a leg, she exchanged him for one that has two legs. They build a nest, had two lots of eggs, but they got eaten by Wattlebirds. Now the Wattlebirds have moved on, they are breeding again for the third time. I have documented it all,( about 300 photos, many of the one-legged male before he got booted out)). Now there are two pink blobs in the nest and both are feeding. I hope they'll make it.

M-L

Araminta
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Woko, I'm sure you even know what kind of moth it is? I just wonder how she feeds it to those tiny pink blobs the size of a thumb-nail? 

M-L

russianbear
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Excellent capture!

Regards

Alex

Araminta
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Both parents are now feeding non stop. I had a little look , the babies are growing fast. Will not take any photos, there is a lot of grass infront of the entrance. They use it to land on, and I'm not going to cut off anything, I'd rather not have any photos.Sorry guys.

I might get some when they come out?

M-L

Woko
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Araminta, it might be an eyespot anthelid but don't hold me to it. I'm better at identifying cars than I am at moths where I'm a raw beginner.

Araminta
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wink.......yea, I have found something you don't know devil

I don't know much about cars, they come in red, blue, geen....crying

M-L

laurius
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Like Madonna sang - "beautiful killer" smiley

Laurius

darinnightowl
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Wow ..wattle birds eating little eggs did you get a photo?

See it!  Hear it!

Mid-North Coast NSW

Araminta
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Both the Wattlebird and a Kookaburra in the first case must have been "immature males", (a joke that is not funny, Darin knows)  BTW, I never said they ate the eggs, should have said they took the babies, Ha Ha

Cool bananas, anything else?

M-L

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