The new house is a bit like living in an English country village – the sandstone, currently the long(isn) evenings spent sitting outside, even blackbirds singing in the background (feral imports, of course).  It is really lovely at the moment, the temperatures are not too hot and the days relatively long of course here in the Southern Hemisphere.

One thing the English Countryside doesn’t have is bower birds.

There are lots of other birds – Rosellas, King Parrots, Rainbow Lorikeets, etc, but the bower birds have been very amusing: this one is seen on our tomato plant.

They must have developed a taste for the exotic – after all, tomatoes are not a natural food for bower birds.

This is a young one or a female – the males are a beautiful satin black.

I had been a little concerned that I would miss the birdlife from our old house, but the new are is just as well provided with birds for us to look at.