I've finally gotten around to editing some footage I shot in January of some rainbow lorikeets feeding. If you thought the crimson rosellas were gorgeous, take a look at these beauties! You might even be familiar with them already from advertising; I feel like they're the go-to birds to display whenever TV makers want to tout their latest screens. They do make a fantastic test of color ability with those rainbow hues, to be fair!
I see these around once or twice a week on average, so they're relatively common. As you can hear in the video, they're quite vocal little parrots, almost constantly chirruping and squawking quietly. But of course, what you're going to mainly notice is that jaw-dropping plumage, going from deep blue or purple, to lighter blue, to bright green, then through yellow, orange, and even a deep reddish-orange hue. (Fun fact: I made the gradient in the words “Rainbow lorikeets” in the video thumbnail by sampling from different parts of the bird in the image, with some slight tweaks.)
I think that's all the footage of birds feeding I've recorded so far; I really need to get around to trying out that motion-sensing setup idea I had now that GoPro's come out with the GoPro Labs firmware for the Hero 9, which allows you to, say, only record while a (user-settable) level of motion is detected. I've tried it out once or twice but still need to play with it to find a good level of motion detection for feeding birds (and of course, have some interesting birds come by while I'm filming!). We'll have to see how that goes in the future. A hui hou!
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