I've finally managed to identify a new bird I saw in the garden yesterday. It's s new Holland Honeyeater. Nice looking bird in black, white and yellow.
And when we got home last night there was a surprise for us. When we go out during the day, at the moment we are not letting the chooks free range when we're not around. So given the change in the hour last Sunday (fall back into autumn), we got home in the dark last night, and it had been dark for quite some time because we took hubby's boss home after my mri scan. So the surprise... It went to lock up the chooks and started with the newbies on the veranda. Lifted up the rock holding the lid down and prepared to lift their lid when I spotted one of my little girls roosting on top of the cage... she's meant to be in the chook house with all my other chicks and chooks. Presumably at some point yesterday she decided to leave her friends and the safety of the outer enclosure and free range by herself. Then at dark finding she couldn't get back in our being hungry had come back to where she was hatched and grew up... Only to find no food and us not in!
At least she roosted somewhere secure(ish). Better there than in a tree or under the house alone where we would not have found her. She's a lovely little girl, very friendly and loves nothing more than a cuddle from you.