I paid a visit to Healesville Sanctuary on Saturday afternoon. It was quite cloudy and the lighting not fantastic but still got some good bird shots and of some animals too. The next few days are shots from my visit there. This is a Brolga.
Author: Kathie
Just sitting
Our two fluffy boys relaxing on the table outside our home.
Young New Holland Honeyeater
Spied this young New Holland Honeyeater preening itself (which is why it’s fluffed up) in a bush at Sky High in Dandenong.
Orchid in flower
I was both pleased and surprised to discover an orchid of ours in full bloom. I hadn’t seen it flower for a few years. We shifted it with us last year but I wasn’t really expecting to see flowers on it – it surprised me! It must like its new surroundings.
Outside our dining room window
I opened the blinds one morning and turned away, only to have my daughter say ‘look mum’ and pointing out the window. I went outside to get a closer shot and it didn’t move. Instead of the ‘old gum tree’ this time round, the kookaburra was in the ‘old liquidamber’ tree.
Lucky catch!
The kookaburras are starting to get to know me now. They don’t expect to be fed every day but if they see I’m outside they might hang around… just in case. One day last week, after returning home from a business meeting, I noticed one kookaburra on the pergola just surveying the lawn for worms….
You don't see this in the suburbs!
Lovely to look out the window or over the fence here at home to see sights I never saw in the suburbs. I could hear the lazy clip clop of a horse’s hooves and was in time to catch this girl and possibly her brother or a friend riding beside her on their bike as…
Cheeky Crow at afternoon tea
Still at Sky High on Mt Dandenong, there is a lovely cafe there. It was one of those fresh but lovely winter days here in Victoria. No rain for a change – just ideal for going out. We sat outside, rugged up to keep warm, and enjoyed a hot cuppa and afternoon tea. On the…
Sky High, Mt Dandenong
Recently our nephew came for a visit and we took the day off from work to drive him around, taking the opportunity to see things we hadn’t yet seen. And so we paid a visit to Sky High at Mt Dandenong and below is just part of the view of the city of Melbourne from…
Emerald Lake Park
Just a few more views of the park.
Puffing Billy at Emerald Lake Park
One of the ways that people come to visit the park is in travelling on the Puffing Billy train. It makes a few visits a day to the Park, sometimes travelling through to Gembrook or returning back to Belgrave. In these shots I was standing on the hill below as it was making changes getting…
Trees around the lake
More at Emerald Lake Park.