Bird Watching: Do you keep a Backyard Bird List???, 1 by kennedyh

kennedyh wrote:
I just added one new bird to my garden list (now 85 species) and a beauty at that. Yesterday evening a flock of Musk Lorikkeets (Glossopsitta concinna) flew squeeling across the garden. I followed them by listening for their calls and found them feeding on the flowers of a tall Eucalyptus tree a couple of hundred yards up the road from us.
These are nectar feeding birds and are often found around flowering Eucalypts.
Here is the only picture I have, taken back in 1983 in Tasmania feeding on the Red-flowering Gum (Corymbia ficifolia):