A Very Cheepy Christmas!

Christmas Day was hot at our place - it reached over 36 deg. C outside, and up to 29 deg inside by the afternoon - no air con, just fans to keep us cool. We had a small gathering (son, daughter and son-in-law) to lunch,  but we still managed to make quite a bit of noise.

The Pardalotes were in fine form, too, flitting back and forth to the nest, chirping and trilling. They brought food in to the nest, so there must have been a baby inside. I wonder if Junior had come back. It would be a real squash if there was more than one baby in the tunnel nest.

I've never seen the Pardalotes so active. The baby (babies?)  in the nest must be quite big to need so much feeding. They may have been a little worried about all the people in the family room, too - usually it's just Greg sitting quietly reading or maybe one of us in the kitchen at the other end of 'their' room. One of them sat at the entrance to the nest several times, for quite a long time, either because the nest was getting too hot/crowded, or to keep a look-out.