Birds at water trough 25/6/2024

Just by chance I've noticed that a group of Honeyeaters have taken to bathing in one of our horse troughs between 10am and noon pretty much every day. So I set my camera and caught some of the action - it's mainly Yellow-faced honeyeaters and White-naped honeyeaters, but there were a few surprise visitors as well.
The first 1:45 is the highlights and then there's about 5 minutes of unedited footage - it gets a bit manic at times - it's quite adorable. By the way since this footage was taken I've added a stick in there, in case one of them gets stuck and needs a hand climbing out.
Yellow-tailed black cockatoos drink regularly from here as well - and that's my next target - to get some good close up footage of them. I've got some footage of them at this trough before, but from a distance, not with the camera close up. See • Yellow-tailed black co...