Baby Singing Honeyeaters To Cute for Words

First day in the big bad world How cute is this???

What you lookin at???
This is the second year the Singing Honey eaters have nested in my yard and both times right under our noses.
Last year it was in a Ficus pot plant on the veranda right beside our car . This year in a bush beside the driveway and veranda a the busiest part of our garden.They are not just pretty faces as we afford some degree of safety to them from their enemies and I suppose they can see our 3 cats are beyond giving them any bother.
Elaborate measures are taken to disguise their entry to the nest sometimes flying along the veranda under cover from above or approaching from bush to bush first diving into a tree on the other side of the block at breakneck speed .
 The young are very quite unlike some baby birds, making very little sound when the parent arrives with food. Food arrives at frequent intervals of about 2 minutes. Who would spray their gardens when there are birds with young around ?  Spiders, caterpillar's and small fruit are but a small part of the diet
As soon as they can fly a little, Mum moves them from tree to tree in my yard and then a few days later to my back yard .
The Brown Honey eaters think the backyard is theirs and are up in arms doing their best to move the newcomers on but their loud squawking is greeted by large hunks of ignore and finally thwarted bird gives up and returns to it's nest next door home

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