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Purple-crowned Lorikeets At Apollo Bay

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I was having a lot of fun looking at the musk lorikeets. Seth, who had run after me, said “I think those are purple crowded.”

I wasn’t confident identifying the birds based on my photos. I’d seen purple crowneds previously, but they were high up in the tree. The photo quality was bad and I couldn’t get a close look at the features.

I googled purple crowned lorikeets as soon as I got back to the flat. Seth was right! This was especially impressive when you consider that the birds he saw looked like the one above; they didn’t have the obvious purple crown that we later saw.

Seeing these birds was a definite highlight of the trip.

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Musk Lorikeets in Apollo Bay

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I was at my aunts flat in Apollo Bay. I heard lorikeets flying past and landing on a tree in a nearby street. My ears pricked up. They weren’t rainbow lorikeets!

I’m horrid with bird calls, but we get a lot of rainbow lorikeets in Geelong. I’ve become very familiar with their different calls and the shapes of their bodies when flying. I know when something is different.

I got my camera and rushed to the street. I was right! There were a lot of musk lorikeets in this particular tree – and they were close to eye level.

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Two Varients of Botryllus Schlosseri in Apollo Bay Harbour

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It was our second night in Apollo Bay – and our first chance for proper rockpooling. I hadn’t even walked down the steps when Seth shouted “I found that ascidian!”

Let’s just ignore the fact that my 14 year old nephew knows what an ascidian is. He was able to find multiple colonies of both the purple and orange variant of Botryllus Schlosseri. This is impressive since the low tide was around .5m. Normally we don’t find the good stuff unless we get a super low tide.

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