One afternoon recently, I heard a lot of excited calling by Little Corellas out in the street, so I went out with my camera to see what was going on. There was a large group of birds on the driveway of a house across the road, and they seemed to be collecting fruit or something … More Street Party
Two Pink-eared Ducks were sleeping peacefully on a perch in a pond. Two Australian Pelicans turned up and sailed majestically up to the perch. There were no obvious threats made to dislodge the Ducks, but they took to the water quite promptly. First one Pelican and then the second jumped up onto the perch, and … More Psychological Pressure
Here’s a series of images of a young Australian White Ibis pestering its parent for a meal. The parent regurgitates food, but the tricky bit is the way that long bill goes down the parent’s throat. After feeding, the youngster tried to beg for more (the two final images), but the parent just wasn’t prepared … More How to feed an Ibis? Very carefully!
It crossed from left to right in front of me. Clearly it wasn’t at all sure why it had done so, as once it got there, it immediately turned round and went back to where it had started.
These Grebes always seem to be such serious and self-contained little birds. I came across this one having quite an extended bath, which was fun to watch. Here are a few shots of it. Things started quietly, rose to a frenzy of splashing and then subsided again. At this point, the Grebe seemed to realise … More Australasian Grebe
Just for a change of pace, here are a few photographs I have taken in recent weeks in our garden. I thought I would put these up as I have just been telling a WP friend that I often use my birding lens to photograph flowers rather than using a macro lens these days, as … More In the garden
I watched this Tern as it flew above the water, searching for its next meal. In the first image you can see it has locked on to something in the water. Then it touches down, is briefly submerged, works free of the water and is back in the air again. All this took only a … More Whiskered Tern
During a recent visit to the McClelland Sculpture Park, the group I was with witnessed a Tawny Frogmouth chick which had fallen to the ground being returned to its family. The staff member put a ladder against the tree and carefully placed the rescued chick back on the end of the branch where its parents … More Tawny Frogmouth Family
Sredni Vashtar by Saki (H H Munro) One of the great benefits of the advent of ebooks is the availability of works by writers long out of print and probably not available from libraries. One writer well worth seeking out is Saki, the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1915). His books can be found on Project Gutenberg. … More #ShortStorySeptember
A young Australasian Grebe was in the lake on its own and then swam up to an adult pair with a younger chick. It may be that the adults were its parents, but it had left home and they had another chick to look after. If not that, it was certainly seen as trespassing. One … More No longer welcome!
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