So after being slack for what’s been 10 months, I’ve decided to pick up my pen again. Many things have happened and I didn’t give priority to this blog. Many times I have felt like shutting it down, but at crunch time I couldn’t bring myself to as this is a platform which has been a constant in my life for such a long time.

Last December I was going to put up a post about the year I had had, but there was a technical glitch and the post just didn’t show up. It took awhile for my friend, who is the administrator of this site, to help me fix the problem.

After the problem was fixed I was became lazy and didn’t see writing as a priority. But I think I have lost something of myself in not writing. This is the only place I can write without care about quality and can dictate whatever I want to write. It’s almost liberating in a way.

I have made several friends through writing on this blog over the years. Some of them I’ve met in person and a number of them have become really close friends. Readers who have written to me before have come and gone, and I have missed connecting with people through writing.

Anyway I want to continue musing away about life in my small creative space that is this blog.

Last week I came across this juvenile rainbow lorikeet perched on an azalea bush. At first I thought it may have been injured as it didn’t flinch when I went up close to film it. All it did was blink at me as seen in the video. Literally it was right in front of my nose and I could have reached out to touch its feathers. But I didn’t as I wasn’t sure if any human scent would do it harm. It was an amazing experience being able to come so close to such a beautiful bird.

Rainbow lorikeets are native birds of Australia and they are commonly seen in urban areas. As I later found out, the one I saw was a juvenile lorikeet, as could be seen from the colour of its beak. Adult birds have scarlet red beaks whereas this one’s beak had a little black mixed in with the pale orange. Compared to the adults, this one’s tail and body length was also slightly shorter.

The birds mate for life and usually fly around in pairs. They chirp and twitter noisily and can often be seen sucking nectar from the flowers of bottlebrush trees, eucalyptus trees and the grevillea bushes. Unlike other native birds, they feed on nectar as opposed to seeds of native trees.

Observing wildlife is really interesting and especially so during these lockdown times. Sydney’s lockdown has been extended for another month (been in lockdown since 27 June) and one has to find joy in simple things like these to brighten up one’s mood.