Dancing with the cars
That crazy Sunbird is at it again. She is obsessed with singing, and now dancing with her reflection. Over coffee yesterday with our neighbour, he told us that she has ruined the rubber strips on his car windows, where she will sit for hours with her reflection as companion.
If she can also see herself in the wing mirror as well as the window, she goes into raptures.
Today she was dancing, which was something new.
She doesn’t seem to mind if you watch her either.
An OCD Sunbird for sure. Who leaves a trail of poop wherever she dances.
Another yellow guest is raking in the native bees on our front deck.
I try and save them, but they constantly hurl themselves into the sticky web. Every little white blob in the web was a hapless tiny native bee. How many bees can one Northern Jewelled Spider eat?
He is so shiny and stripey, just like an enamelled brooch sitting in the middle of a perfectly shaped web.
Underneath he wears polka dots.
I am not a fan of spiders, but there is something quite mesmerizing watching this one go about his day. He’s never in a hurry, ambling slowly over to the latest bee, injecting it with something horrid, then going back into the middle of the web for a snooze. He’s about the size of a 5 cent piece now, and will get to about 20c worth. If he lasts that long. He has precariously built his web right alongside some huge hairy monster who’s web is well over a metre wide. This little jewel may well be dinner for his neighbour some night soon…..
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G’day,
It’s amazing that birds are too stupid to work out that they are looking at themselves.
Good photos of the spider, we get them types here also. Maybe their venom has a preservative also.
Hey Doug,
I was recently speaking to The Owl Man from Melbourne, who told me that Owls are some of the “dumbest” of all the bird species. Good eyesight, good hearing yes. Brains, unfortunately not, so “Wise Old Owl” really just applies to their “look”.
I think the spider venom has a liquifying agent in it, so that they can come back and “drink” their victims at a later date.
As I don’t have a macro lense, I try and take all the close up shots with the telephoto lense to really get a great depth of field. My focal length is obviously an issue (stepping back from the spiders was OK by me). Switching to Manual Focus is required as well.
I have never been a spider fan myself…Too many legs , it`s just not normal…lol….
I love this bird….It`s nice to know that the same ones keep coming back….
I still haven`t got my birdbath…Maybe for the Spring!!!!
Spiders are ok, as long as they aren’t INSIDE your car window…..as happened to me recently….
Left the door open for a bit after school while kids were still on playground. By the time we all got in, James yelled SPIDER and there it was, merrily crawling around on the inside of drivers window…..lucky I wasnt driving !!!!
Now snakes……they worry me the most….not sure why….but when we go to the zoo - it is the quickest viewed exhibit by the Hosky’s!!
I’ve got a few spiders taken up residence in my car. Maybe that’s why the girls don’t like driving in it. But they are only tiny little daddy long legs and the like. I’ve never seen such a bizarre looking one as that. They must be warm weather spiders?
Everything is bizarre up here, I have to get used to it.
My German riding teacher (from a few posts back) took no prisoners when it came to spiders. One night we were riding in the indoor arena when a huge hairy thing dropped from the rafters down the front of her top whilst she was mid canter. Without missing a hoofbeat, she clenched a leather gloved fist and crushed the 8 legged beast against her boobs.
Part German, part Amazon.