This morning I had the most beautiful experience. I regularly feed lorrikeets on my balcony. I put a 'line' of honey on the railing and since they normally live in couples they come in two's. Then they start at each end of the line of honey.
Lorrikeets are nectar eaters and they look very funny with their long cylindrical tongues which sort of seem to have hairs sticking out. Sometimes they eat so fast they sneeze. I also have a bird bath for them so they can have a drink or stand in the middle and flap their wings to shower water over themselves (and sometimes over me if the window is open and I am sitting on the lounge). Then they roll over in the bird bath and that is very cute.
This morning I had put out some honey - hard not to as they get quite insistent. In fact these lorrikeets are well organised. They post a scout in the tree at the back of my flats very early in the morning. As soon as I get up this scout goes: eeeh eeeh eeeh ... and then others come swooping in to wait on the railings. If I don't respond quickly they start tapping at the windows with their beaks or peering through the scalloped edges of the blind.
So, there were two lorrikeets on either end of the honey line. I went out on my balcony and they both looked up. I told them how sweet they are and clucked at them - like Skippy - tsk tsk tsk. They answered together in the sweetest trills and then simultaneously went back to their eating.
My translation of their response being: yes we are beautiful and we deserve endless amounts of honey.
They really are a great joy.
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