babies..........

I have had some white plumed honeyeaters in the garden.............they are fairly common but I haven't really noticed them like I have this spring.............so while they may have visited before I think they have only moved in more this spring..................anyway I had kept seeing them in my bougainvillea ......a thicker bushy climber......but it is where I walk several times a day every day..........I kept looking to see if I could find a nest as I had a nest of willy wagtails near by............could never find anything.........the weekend before last Fairy Girl and I were out there doing things..........we both looked and looked.........Fairy Girl was cleaning out some stuff nearby and she was sure like me there must be a nest..........finally Fairy Girl spotted it..........we were looking in too far...........this little nest was hanging out on the edge of the climber under a few leaves...........anyway these are the pics we took that day........3 little babies in the nest............

when I took this one they thought I was Mum coming back with food..........

look how the nest is bound to the branches..........

orange bale twine, umbrella grass, threads, bits of fluff.........

Here is a photo of Mum that I grabbed.............she is fast so not that easy to snap..........

Anyway I found some more info here about the white plumed honeyeater................

the photos below are one week later........and they left the nest the next day...........

Whatever their parents feed them it is good stuff..........they grew so fast............when I looked up the info they said they incubate the eggs for 14 days and then in the nest for 14 days so the top photos they must have been about 6 days old and these about 13 days old..........

the little nest is bursting.............

Now I am enjoying seeing them fly around the garden...........

Catch you later............

Chookyblue...........