“My” flock of rainbow lorikeets, flock of sulphur crested cockatoos (with some corellas and galahs mixed in), and the ten (10!) baby and adolescent brush turkeys (and their father Doug) have watching me and my girlfriend locked down already! All in inner city Brisbane.

I’m spoiled that my backyard backs onto a patch of undeveloped scrubland. Baby brush turkeys are the cutest things in the world, and getting them out of my yard is cute, fun, annoying and quite silly!

Oh and never mind the Koels, Australian magpies, the butcher bird who’s claimed my roof as his territory and teaches his young to fly by zooming around my building as fast as they can go, and last but not least the dozens of noisy miners :)

Actually, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that animals in zoos enjoy watching the visitors, and that they miss that terribly during the pandemic.

If you gaze long onto the birds, the birds gaze also onto thee.

I wonder what the birds around the house think of my tastes in music.

No need to go anywhere, they’re watching you right now

Ornithovoyeurism.