Took my sister to Lysterfield Lake Park when she was visiting recently and we spied this Heron fishing in the lake.
Category: Birds
More birds at Grant's Picnic Grounds
I love that you can get up so close and personal with the birds at Grant’s. It’s a very popular tourist spot and many bus loads pull in daily so the tourists can get an opportunity to hand feed the birds and have their photos taken with them. Below is a Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo and a…
More of the cockies
I learnt something the other week. With my husband currently going through rehab and having to relearn to use his right hand and arm, the physio had mentioned to him that birds are left-handed. And then my daughter mentioned the same thing. A guy she works with is a bird enthusiast and he’d told her…
Someone's banging on our roof
For the past month or more now, the cockies (Cockatoos) have been in our Liquidamber tree which towers above the office roof of our house. They like to chew the nuts or whatever it is the trees are producing. All day long, during daylight, there is this constant banging as they drop their castoffs below…
Yellow-tailed Cockatoo
Not long before we went away we had a visit by three Yellow-tailed Cockatoos. I couldn’t get any shots of them all together so had to settle for just the one. I believe this one is a female. They make quite an unusual grating type of sound when in a tree eating nuts and berries. …