Lorikeet Love Ritual??

I will be honest I lost the ability to tell Male and Female humans apart at a distance early in the sixties so please don't expeect me to be able to tell the difference between male and female Lorikeets except to say that the behaviour of the one displaying appears distinctly male to me.

We had just experienced a fairly good rain shower around noon and when it eased up I rushed out to put out the Garbage for the weekly and fortnightly (Recycle) pick up tomorrow(Domesticated little sod aren't I?), when I noticed this bedraggled looking pair perched on my neighbours clothesline looking miserable. Mad rush back inside grab camera, rushed didn't check settings so first five were a little over exposed but the last was good settings.

The first taken through the clothesline was due to their normal skittishness, but they were drenched as you can see, and didn't move much as I moved around photographing them, at first it was just two then another couple appeared and the large brightly coloured fellow went into full display, he was really effective but I guess bonding with these birds is fairly strong, cause he got no takers although a fair amount of interest. Thought that you would like a break from the flowers.

With regard to the weather I am with Einstein, - It's All Relative! I spent the last 15 years of my Army service in Darwin and there you learned to sleep in 32degree celcius heat with an absolute minimum in all the time I was there of 17 Degree C. So it may not be cold to you Innuit, but to us Territorians, it's bloody freezing - So There!