~ www.larkin.net.au ~
Birds in the garden 

Siva has linked to this page via his excellent and informative blog, Otterman speaks... so I thought I better add some text to this page. All of these birds were photographed from our garden here in the Illawarra, NSW. The cockatoos are not too welcome as they make it difficult for the other birds and they have a habit of chewing the rubber seals from around solar hot water system on the roof.
Our home is surrounded by a reasonable population of trees including eucalyptus, pine, maple and banksia varieties. I have added an additional gallery of birds and other creatures recently. My first gallery of garden flora and fauna is worth a look too.

The first photograph is actually an eucalyptus tree in our front yard. All of the other photographs were taken from various points in our back yard. Some of the cockatoos are in our neighbour's trees or on their roof. I have photographed king parrots as well however I felt the photgraphs I had taken of the king parrots at my friend's place were much better. I also managed to photograph some birds at Lake Illawarra as well.

 
garden_birds_01

garden_birds_01.jpg
garden_birds_02

garden_birds_02.jpg
garden_birds_03

garden_birds_03.jpg
garden_birds_04

garden_birds_04.jpg
garden_birds_05

garden_birds_05.jpg
garden_birds_06

garden_birds_06.jpg
garden_birds_07

garden_birds_07.jpg
garden_birds_08

garden_birds_08.jpg
garden_birds_09

garden_birds_09.jpg
garden_birds_10

garden_birds_10.jpg
garden_birds_11

garden_birds_11.jpg
garden_birds_12

garden_birds_12.jpg
garden_birds_13

garden_birds_13.jpg
garden_birds_14

garden_birds_14.jpg
garden_birds_15

garden_birds_15.jpg
garden_birds_16

garden_birds_16.jpg
 
  Copyright John Larkin. Not to be used without permission.