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A marmalade pussycat would like to get closer to a Christmas robin ...
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Mistletoe wants to wish everyone a Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!!!
( I can't tell you how hard this was to do!!! Tried to photograph 4 dogs by myself!!! LOL...).
Dicaeum hirundinaceum
Nectariniidae
How special to have these tiny birds visiting our garden. They are feeding on a Pepper Tree (Schinus).
"Occurring throughout mainland Australia, Mistletoebirds are often seen restlessly flitting about in the canopy of trees, or flying overhead while uttering a strident tzew. Their preferred food is the berries produced by mistletoe. The seeds within these fruits pass intact through the birds’ digestive system and are excreted in sticky strands that adhere to branches, where they germinate. In this manner, mistletoe is spread from tree to tree, providing extra habitat for the species which rely on it to survive." www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/mistletoebird
find between roots of a tree. Must be a "leftover" or may be part of the ritual "kissing under a mistletoe" on Christmas?
The male bird was having nothing to do with this photography caper and took one look at us and headed into the undergrowth. The female, however, had work to do in collecting cobwebs so there were glimpses of her every now and then to try and capture.
(Peter)
While Gia waits for a kiss under the mistletoe, she wanted to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas! :)
Well, i am super late with uploading photos of this guy...
He was made as a donation for a charity event (silent auction) over the holidays.
pucker up!....sssssmoooch!
According to a custom of Christmas cheer, any two people who meet under a hanging of mistletoe are obliged to kiss. The custom is Scandinavian in origin.
The custom has been incorporated into various holiday songs. The 1943 song I'll Be Home for Christmas tells the story of a lonely traveler looking forward to coming home and seeing, among other things, mistletoe. The Mistletoe is mentioned in the song "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire" ("The Christmas Song"), made famous by Nat King Cole, and written by Mel Torme. The song "A Holly Jolly Christmas" sung by Burl Ives, and used for the TV special "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", features the line, "Ho Ho, the Mistletoe", and the line, "Kiss her once for me". In 1961 singer Aretha Franklin released a Christmas song called Kissin' by the Mistletoe. In 1971 singer Lynn Anderson recorded the song Mr. Mistletoe on her holiday album The Christmas Album. The song talks about an elf who hangs mistletoe in homes so that people can "steal a kiss from someone that they know". In 2001 Barbra Streisand released the song It Must Have Been the Mistletoe. Rocking around the Christmas Tree also refers to "mistletoe hung where you can see, every couple tries to stop".
South Lawson Fire Trail.
Amyema pendulum
[Family LORANTHACEAE]
Clinging to its Eucalyptus host, with its pendulous Eucalyptus like leaves.
Mistletoes are semi-parasitic. They have chlorophyll in their leaves and can therefore manufacture their own food. They use the host to provide water and support; as a root system
These are the ripening berries of the Desert Mistletoe, a parasite which bores its highly specialized “roots” through the bark of a host plant such as Mesquite, to suck up water and minerals.
Many plants offer fruits loved by birds. In a common scenario, the small indigestible seeds go through the bird and are finally deposited on the ground in a handy little pool of fertilizer. But Mistletoe has no need to get anywhere near the ground. So it figured out how to get its seeds directly to another branch.
It created a sweet berry full of chemicals loved by songbirds. Especially the small shiny-black addicts called Phainopepla.
The plant made that juicy-looking berry immensely sticky, caulking-gun sticky. And it timed that stickiness, so the bird would not notice it for a couple of minutes.
Sitting on a new branch, the satiated bird suddenly notices the mastic beginning to harden on its beak. With urgent vigor, it wipes its beak over and over on the new branch, firmly “planting” the small mistletoe seeds.
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