I really should visit our zoos far more often. The Healesville Sanctuary is in my neck of the woods and it is entirely Australian animals and birds (I believe). I love going to the ‘Spirit in the Sky’ show to practice my BIF (bird in flight) shots. This time round I took the new Nikon…
Category: Healesville Sanctuary
Australian birds
I mentioned a few days ago about taking a young Canadian visitor around to some of my favourite places to take visitors. He loved seeing all the birdlife. Here are more birds we saw that day. Sacred Ibis – these birds are scavengers and are frequently seen near places where people have been eating. Male…
Barking Owl
When I last went to Healesville they had a Barn Owl out and I was hoping to see it again. But instead they had the Barking Owl which I’d not seen before. Striking eyes don’t you think? This is apparently a medium sized hawk owl and are primarily nocturnal but can be seen out during…
Pretty Cockatoo
This is the Major Mitchell Cockatoo. I hadn’t seen one before visiting Healesville Sanctuary sometime ago. But my husband Graham tells me he remembers seeing them in South Australia where we used to live over 20 years ago. Anyway, here it is in flight and in its favourite perching place – a hollowed out tree…
Black Breasted Buzzard
Did you like the shot from yesterday? Here are a couple more of this bird. Apparently they are the only bird that uses rocks to crack open Emu eggs. It was demonstrated during the bird flight show. Pretty amazing.
Black Breasted Buzzard
I visited the “Spirits of the Sky” Flight Show at Healesville Sanctuary on Saturday and managed to get some shots of some amazing birds. This is a Black Breasted Buzzard, which had just been given something to eat. Note its amazing wingspan. It flew right over our heads and delighted the crowd.
Feeding the Pelicans
When visiting Healesville Sanctuary recently I got to watch the pelicans being fed.
Lone Duckling
As we made our way around Healesville Sanctuary the other day we came across the wetlands area. It had duck weed or similar growing right across the top of the water. Looked strange for this lone duckling to be making its way across the top slowly.
Australian Dingo on alert
Something caught the attention of this dingo who had been sleeping on the rock when I first walked up to the enclosure at Healesville Sanctuary.
Sleeping koala
For my US friends who read this blog, thought you might like this pic. It was busy sleeping, as Koalas do during the day.
Superb blue fairy wren (male)
This is the closest I’ve gotten to a wren yet. It flew into a tree above my head and naturally my camera was already in my hand ready for action.
Australian White Ibis
There were quite a few of these hanging around and scavenging for food at the sanctuary. Can you see the drops of water falling from the beak in the first photo?