This pair were watching to see if I was putting out any more feed recently in our garden. These parrots don’t seem to be afraid, that is they’re used to having humans in close proximity. I know they hang around my neighbour’s deck out the back as he has a pet Corella living there and it’s on the second story so on tree top level. But they often visit our property too.
The one with the brilliant red is the male.
That time of year and the roses are budding – and they look beautiful in the spring rains too. The scents are beautiful. I love exploring my garden every day.
This is our cat Shadow sitting in the long grass and miniature daisies. He’d recently had an operation and was enjoying being outside. The grass was long because the ground was too wet to run the ride-on mower on without getting bogged. I don’t think our cats mind the long grass at all.
In this image, where Shadow is inspecting the grass before venturing onto it, you can see a glimpse of his shaved side.
On the old shed at the front of our property the words in this title of this post are carved in wood. We’ve learnt bits and pieces of the history of our home from our elderly neighbour, who has been there for over 40 years and probably seen about 4 or 5 owners of our home in that time. Interesting stories too, the further back they go.
Anyway, for some reason our house was named Kozee Korner so I found it also a suitable title for the image below, taken in our loungeroom one evening.
As I mentioned recently, I’ve been designing Christmas Cards with local nature images on them for sale at markets and a local tearoom. Below as the draft samples I made up before sending some of them to the printer. Below that are the finals I’ve had printed – they look much better in gloss and brightly printed.
The cards are available for sale. $25.00 for a pack of 10 (2 of each design) or $3.00 per card. They come with envelopes. There will be a charge of $2.00 for postage inside Australia and $6.00 outside of Australia. Please email me if you’d like to place an order.
This bee was in the Broom flower and totally laden with pollen. I’ve never seen a bee so yellow before 
A photo of a blue banded bee I took led me to a path of discovery. I began researching to find out what kind of bee it was. I've actually learnt lots of things since that day and can now name almost every bird in this region and identify it by its call too. Apart from improving my skills in photography and learning more about my camera, lighting, settings, etc, I've learnt so much more about the environment in which I live. [Read More …]
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How exciting!Sally K Witt, Social Media and Ministry on Red-tailed black cockatoo
Always love the birds and animal shots, Kathie!Kathie Thomas on Kangaroos in the park
They are generally shy of people and when there are a lot of people at the park they retreat into the bush. But when there's...Sally K Witt, Social Media and Ministry on Kangaroos in the park
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Very nice Kathie!