Beautiful birds of the back yard

Gorgeous male King parrot in the back yard, Casa da Ayre January 2016 

We provide sunflower seeds to the wild birds in our backyard - which seems to be greatly appreciated by the native bird population.  On any given day, our gardens are a riot of colour and noise from the visiting Rainbow lorrikeets, Scaley-breasted lorikeets, Eastern rosellas, Crested pigeons, Little corellas, Galahs and occasionally Sulphur-crested cockatoos.

Because the birds are such messy feeders, invariably we end up with blooms of sunflowers near the feeders, and when those sunflowers start to seed, the local King parrot population arrives to feed on the flowerheads.