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My Wild Pollinator Count

11/5/2018

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I’m a notorious non-participator in group activities, but one I did participate in last month was the Autumn Wild Pollinator Survey. The results of the survey came today in an email with a link to some of the photos submitted, including some of my own.
Looking at those photos reminded me I had yet to review my portfolio for what had been a pleasant morning’s outing near the BP site at Waverton. I had taken a camera with a telephoto lens, as I didn’t want to get too close to any of the flowers lest I discouraged the pollinators.
Not long after setting out, I became aware of a beady set of eyes regarding me with deep suspicion.
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I pulled my hat a little lower over the back of my neck and continued on. A little further along, I was reminded that there were others who prefer consuming pollinators to counting them:


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Musk Lorikeets

10/5/2018

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In the last few weeks I’ve been hearing these birds again – sounding rather like rainbow lorikeets, but higher-pitched, much more squeak than squawk—and eventually I got fairly close to some, high in a flowering eucalypt in Brennan Park. The small group of Musk Lorikeets (Glossopsitta concinna) was back in the area after a break of several months, chattering as they went about gathering their breakfast from the eucalyptus flowers. Conditions weren’t sympathetic for photography, but I got some reasonable shots.
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