Life in Colour August: Red
A mid-week bonus photo. I heard the quiet chip chip in the garden this morning. I knew who was out there.
A double red for the bonus this week
A Scarlet Honeyeater on a red Callistemon or Bottlebrush
Today in the garden
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What a fantastic double winner – the reds in the honeyeater, and the wonderfully fluffy bottle brush are so bright. Isn’t nature amazing! I presume the honey eater’s beak is bowed at the end to make it easier for him to access the honey?!
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That’s right. A good probing instrument. Glad you like the Scarlet Honeyeater and Bottlebrush Emma 🙂 🙂
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Nature is so utterly well made!! Amazing to see birds with such vivid colouring – we have a lovely range of birds here in West Sussex, UK, but much more muted! I turn to the butterflies for flashy colouring 🙂
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Butterflies do have that certain colourful dressings. The butterflies are just starting to arrive 🙂
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Wonderful – so the flowers must be blooming well!
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All the grevilleas are in flower, the Sweet Pittosporums just opening giving a heavenly scent to the garden and the always flowering Pentas attracting everyone 🙂
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Oh, yes. Red on red. And isn’t he a little beauty? I was scouring the skies for a buzzard this morning, I could hear the mew-mew sound, but it took a while to locate it. Isn’t nature and wildlife wonderful?
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Nature is my thing Jude. I love having it around my house every day. The plants that bring the birds and insects and the animals that wander through from time to time.
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A fabulous double entry. How lucky to have such a glorious bird visiting.
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They are red jewels flashing through my garden 🙂 🙂
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Stunning!!!
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Thanks 🙂 🙂
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Wow Bushboy. What a beautiful bird
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Thank you Helen 🙂 🙂
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I reckon that scarlet honeyeater knew just what he was doing when he posed on that red bottlebrush. “I’ll wait till that silly s*d comes out with the camera and give him a treat” I can hear him say to himself. And he did, and you got it!
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I took around thirty photos all from the comfort of my verandah that was the pick 🙂 🙂
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How opportune
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The honeyeaters are around most of the day when the bottlebrush have a profusion of flowers 🙂 🙂
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Okay
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Beautiful photo Brian. The bird and flower are both so photogenic.
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Scarlet Honeyeaters love red flowers….a good combination
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Ahhh
I can imagine the delightful discovery this was after hearing chip chip
And because red and green are complements I think it makes all those reds and warm see hit us even more
Another vibrant shot from your garden today
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Thanks Yvette. I knew who it was and where they would be in the garden 🙂 🙂
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Awesome photo, two reds in one.
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Not often I get a double scrapy 🙂 🙂
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Lucky you took advantage of it by photographing both together.
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Seeing red in this case is a real pleasure!
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Thank you Lisa 🙂 🙂
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