Sunday, October 24, 2010

Kookaburra

I love these majestic birds.   We see them every morning on our walk.

Ducks on the pond



Spring has sprung and this family of Australian Wood Ducks were out for their morning forage.

Rainbow Bee-eater




On our walk this morning we were surprised to see this beautiful bright coloured bird which upon looking up we find out that it is a Rainbow Bee-eater, apparently quite common even though neither of us has seen one before.




The bird life around our new location at Wakerley is fantastic. I will share more soon

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Female red backed Kingfisher


Eileen and I have been surprised by the numbers of these we have seen during Spring and the fact that be early in the year there aren't any to be seen.