Birds of a feather

There be Miners and Mynahs, we had a plague of common mynahs but they seem to have vanished.
The noisy lot have their uses, if a Python is about they will let me know.
Perhaps we should eliminate all successful species ( but exempt the most successful predator the planet has ever known )
 
The noisy miners around my house have driven away everything but the Currawongs, but the miners have a go at them too. They have taken over all the Eucalypts in the reserve opposite. If the noisy miners are “successful” at the expense of most of the other species, that is not an ecological success.
 
drron said:
Well our butcher birds keep the miners in check.They like a snack of young miners.

These birds swoop and annoy our cat. One day he was in the back yard playing with his toys while been swooped by the birds.
Two hours later there was nothing but a very large scattering of bird feathers to be seen.
 
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You can't see it there but it is a flash of red on his back above the tail. :D

This is a rainbow bee eater - along the Cotter River near Canberra - another sweet bird
Is that just a name, because I hope that they don’t actually eat bees. 🐝.
 
Is that just a name, because I hope that they don’t actually eat bees. 🐝.
Err, yes they do.

From Rainbow Bee-eater | BirdLife Australia

Rainbow Bee-eaters eat insects, mainly catching bees and wasps, as well as dragonflies, beetles, butterflies and moths. They catch flying insects on the wing and carry them back to a perch to beat them against it before swallowing them. Bees and wasps are rubbed against the perch to remove the stings and venom glands.
 
... Rainbow Bee-eaters eat insects, mainly catching bees and wasps, as well as dragonflies, beetles, butterflies and moths. They catch flying insects on the wing and carry them back to a perch to beat them against it before swallowing them ...

The poor honey bee has enough problems, and now I find out that there are bee eaters around. 😩 Well, that’s nature at work, I guess.
 

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