These "rainbow lorikeets" (a kind of parrots) are "wild". They come and go when and where they like. We put some (not wild; bird) seeds (sunflower seeds, wheat, millets, wild rice, and other grass seeds) on a tray and some water in bowls (near the our rain guage at the the top of a wooden post) everyday. About this time near the end of Winter, wild seeds are hard to find, so they come. Some days, 50-60 of them flock the tray and the bowls. They are quite chatty and easily excited. Though some are brave and would come to eat seeds on our hands. Most would fly off when we approach.

The doves in the picture above this one are also wild. They somehow come to eat what the lorikeets leave behind. There are also king parrots; galahs; finches; natives minors; honey eaters; ... even a regular visiting butcher bird.

Australia is a harsh land; and we have these seasonal "migrants" (or refugees) from drier inlands (desert areas near centre of the continent) every Winter. Most of them go back in Spring. Many stay on though ;-) -- just like human migrants we hear about on the media.