Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Baby Wattlebird Leaves the Nest

The baby bird flew away yesterday. It was great watching her get bigger, venture out onto the branch and then just flutter away. Here's a pic I took a couple of days before while mum was still feeding her. If you click on the pic and make it bigger you'll see the baby bird with its beak sticking up just behind the small branch in front of its nest.



Her tree was getting a tad crowded, now that it's in full bloom. I refuse to buy a leaf blower, so it looks like I'll be out sweeping the truckloads of petals that are going to end up on the driveway. They look pretty, but turn the driveway a slushy brown if left for too long. Good for the arm muscles

2 comments:

Pamela said...

What a gorgeous tree!

Carol Ryles said...

They grow like weeds here. In Brisbane, they used to grow in our house gutters and we had to pull them out every year or else the roof would flood.