Autumn is truly a beautiful time of the year. At least I think so. Been visiting a few parks and gardens lately.
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…
Insects on our trip
When at Mengler’s Hill in South Australia I spotted this Monarch Butterfly (sometimes referred to as The Wanderer as well) and followed it around. And there were these amazingly huge Orb spiders in many gardens and parks as well.