My bird book – ‘The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds‘ – managed to confuse me when I made a quick identity check on these Eastern Rosellas before posting. The damned book shows the wrong undercarriage – very little green and no red undertail at all.
So there I was, confronted with the wrong-coloured picture – trying to decide if what I had photographed were a hybrid Crimson and Eastern Rosella.
I couldn’t see how, for the Crimson Rosella has blue cheeks. Duhhh.
These photos were taken with the Nikon D3000 on our walk yesterday ( a mere kilometre). Not the best pics in the world, but I don’t usually get the chance to aim the camera, let alone snap a few, with these ones.
Thanks for looking. Hope you’re having a beaut weekend.
🙂
Christine R 
Do you still have connections with anyone from the Gould’s bird club? If it’s still going?
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Well, knock me down with a feather. I Googled and see the Gould league is still active with schools!
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Yep, the Gould League is still going.
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You never hear about it though. We all used to have a certificate saying we were a bird lover. I thought it must have died away.
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Yeah, I had a certificate, too. And I did a bird tracking project for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. The Gould League is still educating school children and I guess that’s where its focus lies, as it was back then, in our day.
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