Nikon D2x with 60mm f2.8 micro nikor lensAfter shooting a great wedding yesterday and some much needed rain on Friday night I decided this morning to venture out to a nearby location and photograph the flowers on a colony of Mistletoe plants. These particular parasitic plants have made home in the branches of low growing Acacia trees near the small township of Merbein, in far Northern Victoria.
The Mistletoe, much maligned for the damage it does to native trees, provides countless numbers of birds with a great supply of food at this time of year. In fact while I concentrated on finding a picture to add to our stock photography collection, there were about a dozen very noisy honey eaters fighting over who got to feed from the best flowers on my plant. None of them seemed to mind me being there, such was the attraction of the flowers.
Apparently of all the tree nesting birds in Australia, around 75% of them are very happy to call a Mistletoe plant home when it comes time to nest.
The Mistletoe, much maligned for the damage it does to native trees, provides countless numbers of birds with a great supply of food at this time of year. In fact while I concentrated on finding a picture to add to our stock photography collection, there were about a dozen very noisy honey eaters fighting over who got to feed from the best flowers on my plant. None of them seemed to mind me being there, such was the attraction of the flowers.
Apparently of all the tree nesting birds in Australia, around 75% of them are very happy to call a Mistletoe plant home when it comes time to nest.
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