I paid a visit last Friday to one of my favourite places, Grant’s Picnic Ground, which is only around 10 mins drive from my home and halfway between my daughter’s and my homes. So I will often drop in there after I’ve been visiting Melanie. That day there were quite a few kookaburras hanging around…
Category: Australian wildlife
Kookaburra in our garden
We have a family of kookaburras living on our property. I’ve been occasionally throwing out strips of beef and they love it. Here’s one on the ground with some meat and then getting ready to launch itself into flight again.
Australian King Parrots
We have a couple of feeders in our park. One hanging off the pergola and another off an oak tree. After I put this one up and started to put seed out we had Australian King Parrots pay us a visit. They hadn’t been here before then although I knew they visited a place across…
The cheeky Currawong
These birds are almost the size of our crows, or ravens. A very dark grey, almost black with the distinctive white strip on their wings. They have an unusual call that travels long distances. The lilly pilly tree is heavily laden with berries and they love them. But I am sure they keep flying over…
Cute little fella!
This is a brown thornbill I saw on one of my walks.