Birds at breakfast time

Some wild birds seem to forget that they are supposed to be afraid of people. Rainbow lorikeets are birds that easily adapt to being companions to people and make a habit of visiting the place where they know there is a "hand-out". Every bird (to me) is identical and the only way I know that these birds have been visiting us for years and years is because of the occasional bird with some sort of deformity.
The bird closest to the camera has a double lower bill. The large bit at the bottom is not controllable by the bird at all, inside this flapping beak is a smaller but usable bill. When this bird first came to our feeder she was quite young - in a young lorikeet the bill is quite dark - and the other birds would crowd her out from the feeder. We took to putting a special small dish on the table and would wave a hand to keep the other birds from muscling in on her as she took some of the sugar treat. (Raw sugar diluted in water). She came in for a few months and disappeared and we feared the worst but one day she was back - and with her was a juvenile lorikeet. "Twisty Beak" had become a parent! Every year this same pattern occurred and she (or he!) has been returning to visit us for at least five years - we haven't kept count but feel sure that we are right about the longitude of her visiting!
Twisty Beak is still bullied by the majority of the other visiting lorikeets and we still have to chase them back while she gets some of what they know to be delicious! They devour their own large dish of sugary water and white bread in under two minutes! Mind you, fifty birds licking and sucking up only one litre of liquid and soggy bread means that none of them get very much! It is because of the many times we have seen Twisty Beak that we know that the other birds have also been coming to our bird feeder for years too.
There are other birds with toes that are curled up permanently - caused by them being brought up in a hollow tree that has had mud in the bottom when they were first out of the egg and the mud has dried on their feet causing a problem as they grew. In spite of their deformity the birds all seem to manage to survive and thrive.
AJ