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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    This clip is just to show how wonderfully tame they are becoming. They just love dried grapes -- 'sultanas' SE
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    This clip, taken several days ago, is better than the one I got this morning. A page back is the Baby Dinosaur Fluffy Bum photo. There's a little fluffy toosh-feather growth happening. Very nice. Now have a look at today's clip. You can see the 'eruption' of black feathers in their tooshes and...
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    This is what they'll look like. (This Dad, by the way, is Limpy Chick's brother, 'Toosh Toosh.')
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    So, Number One is the top of the neck. You can see a sort of 'bursting through' of black pin feathers. In a month, those fuzzy pin feathers will extend from the neck to the top of the head -- 'black head.'
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    Today is not about cute. The chicks are now one season old, and these photos show that they have begun blasting from Baby Plumage Nos. 2 – brown with watermelon stripes – to ‘black head.’ My excuse is that they just never stop moving.
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    Photos later. The biggest chick is clearly shifting to black-head plumage. SE
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    'e.g. your yellow flowers for Emus and White Cedar also known as Cape Lilac for Red Tailed Black Cockatoos in the Midwest' Ah!
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    This photo is an insight into The Project. The tame-wild birds -- like Undersized Emu -- come and go seamlessly with the fully wild birds. Several days ago, we audited at dawn. Two females were vocal. One we knew was U.E. We expected her to come out for breakfast. But she didn't -- and there's...
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    Random wild horse photo
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    Catch-Up Notes Emu chicks start developing ‘black head’ plumage at about one season – twelve weeks. That is a fortnight from now. Feel free to laugh. I've been peering at their tooshes and the tops of their necks. It's the top of the necks where you usually see the first signs: tiny black pin...
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    Our newest adventure, EMU's!

    Lovely photos! I am here, posting occasionally on the Lilly Pilly thread. [Limpy Chick and his clutch here now, and Undersized Emu, and one random male.] SE
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    Our newest adventure, EMU's!

    'So 2.5 years of age.' We are both learning. So, these two birds are physically mature, which brings us back to discussions of how the forming of breeding-pairs works in accordance with . . . lots of different factors. SE
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

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    Our newest adventure, EMU's!

    I will be back later. Off to the garden. Limpy Chick and his clutch will likely be here shortly. SE
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    Our newest adventure, EMU's!

    'Is the dancing related to a mating ritual or just normal behavior?' I think some Youtubers like to post dancing as 'mating dances,' but no. Emus just love to dance, mostly at dawn, and mostly the chicks. It is one of the great delights of observing, to see pint-size emus dancing crazily in...
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    Our newest adventure, EMU's!

    'Cool, I'll mark March 21st down in my calendar.' September. And a further note about north/south: The three sub-species of emu have habitats that span amazing areas. I am in the bottom-left-hand corner of Western Australia -- rothschildi territory. But think about it, for example, in respect...
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    Our newest adventure, EMU's!

    And if you look closely, you can see mud in their tails. They've been drinking down at the dam. SE
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