day one-hundred-and-thirty-four - musk lorikeet

a timeline of my relationship with musk lorikeets:

four-and-a-bit months ago: i find out what a musk lorikeet is
four months ago: i paint this guy
one-and-a-half weeks ago: i realise they live in south australia!
four days ago: i stop and watch them on my walk home
today: they weren't in their home-tree, so i made my own: (uh oh, colon within a colon)

© jem barratt

hee hee hee, so cute! i like watching rosellas and rainbow lorikeets too (you can never be unhappy looking at a parrot), and even had a galah eating the soursobs in my front yard the other day, but musk lorikeets are a bit fatter and more squat than all of the above.

and... oh

it seems i have drawn a 'little lorikeet' by accident. FINE! timeline of the little lorikeet:

today: i learn what a little lorikeet is when i accidentally draw it thinking it is a musk lorikeet

no biggie - in fact i may like little lorikeets more. thanks happy accident! but for your information here is the real deal...

© jem barratt

seems i know nothing about animals. what i do know is that musk lorikeets are bandito birds, while little lorikeets look like they've been face-punched by red paint.

xj

day one-hundred-and-nine - rainbow lorikeet

i wish this was south australia's emblem:

© jem barratt

i do like it, but to be fair it looks nothing like a rainbow lorikeet. they look like this. i've seen so many this week while walking home, and it tends to make my walk a good 15 minutes or so longer. totes worth it. although i probably look like a weirdo staring at trees...

in case you don't know the existing state emblem, it looks a little like this. or more accurately EXACTLY like that.

i can't believe that took me almost three hours! it's so not good enough to have stolen that much time from me. i'd much rather have watched the real things pecking each other on their beaks. for three hours...

xj