New Holland Honeyeater

I have a pair of New Hollands living in a huge native shrub in my backyard.  They get very loud (for such tiny birds) and chirpy just before dawn.  The shrub is flowering at the moment and it's seeing lots of small bird action ... which could be why my chillies are copping it.  I keep finding them half nibbled and chucked all over my small veggie patch.

Woko, I'd still probably let the NHs have them.  I have so many chillies in the fridge they're taking up half a shelf.  I don't know if the NHs actually enjoy eating them or if they're chucking them all over in retaliation for the burn.  It's a bit odd.  Chillie plants are very fragile and fully ripe ones break off the plant really easily - unripe ones don't and you take a chunk of plant with them if you try to pull them off (best to cut off with scissors), yet each chillie is nipped off at just the right point from the plant and there was a pile of about 20 green ones next to one bush.  I should point them at my bougainvillea if they're that good at pruning.

Well, could be Brown Honeyeaters (I've seen them go through the garden looking for spiders) but haven't seen any for a wee while.  Parrots would have done way more damage and I've never seen the Silvereyes in that part of the garden as they usually stay in the trees at the back.  I have to point the finger at someone so, as they're the most visible and boisterous, the New Hollands get the guernsey.  Probably why they're so boisterous!