Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

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Random wild horse photo

 

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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 a thing here, travel at dawn dawn and dusk dusk, that we should talk about.

Anyway, some hours later, six emus turned up in the house-clearing. One was U.E., and the others were wild. If they see or hear me, they bolt. But the photo shows wild emus right of the back porch. They don't know they are 'in my back yard.' This is one way that we get great observations.

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Invasive plant species are not always bad for our native birds.
e.g. your yellow flowers for Emus and White Cedar also known as Cape Lilac for Red Tailed Black Cockatoos in the Midwest

 

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'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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Photos later. The biggest chick is clearly shifting to black-head plumage.

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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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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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This is what they'll look like. (This Dad, by the way, is Limpy Chick's brother, 'Toosh Toosh.')