For the last 20 years we have been putting food and water out for ‘migratory’ birds from drier inland areas. In winters, they move East towards the coast. It has been our regular ‘daily event’ except on rainy days. And now in Spring...

Many kinds of birds (local and migratory) visit our place. We set up an observatory (our setup: 1 Android mobile phone with an IP camera app to stream video via Wi-Fi to a laptop running VLC - an excellent and free video player software). The phone/camera is on the right.

With this set up, we get pictures of (wild) doves (below)

A pair of galahs (slight grey with pink neck and breast feathers);

But sometimes some rainbow lorikeets surprise us by lining up to feed from our hand. Such rare moments are really memorable. Somehow, we feel we have a rare gift from them. This is a gift of 'trust' -- much more valuable than'things'.

There is also a (same) gift from 2 local butcher birds. One in the picture below we call 'Mr Butch'.

And a male king parrot (below).

We are quite 'rich' with so much 'gift' given to us, even when our bank accounts show only 3 digits before the decimal point. ;-) The land and our plants will keep us going for a while yet. But a bad 'el nino' is coming...