I love watching the birdlife in our garden and consider my husband and I to be very blessed indeed. We live in such a beautiful part of Australia. The Australian King Parrot is a large parrot and the male have a completely red head and the female completely green. Both have red tummies and green…
Category: Birds
Ducks at the park
At Lysterfield Lake there seems to be at least two different types of ducks living there. One of those types loves sleeping in the trees. You can walk around and hear quacking above your head. This was one I saw recently while walking around the park. This is the Australian Wood Duck and apparently only…
White faced heron
Regular readers will know that I’ve been trying to get closer shots of the white-faced heron at Lysterfield Lake Park. While my sister-in-law and her husband were visiting recently, I took her down to the park to see first hand the beautiful place I love to roam regularly. Imagine my surprise to see the heron…
Coming for a landing
While at 1000 steps you are guaranteed to see and hear lots of Sulphur-crested Cockatoos. They are noisy birds and easily excitable. This one was coming in to land on a branch when I caught the action.
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
I can always be sure that at least one of these birds is going to pose for me whenever I visit Grant’s Picnic Grounds, a popular place for tourists to hand feed birds. This one appears to have a cracked beak.