Lots of little black ducks, some with white on their heads and some with white bottoms, and then these two bigger ducks – all on Tea-tree Lake within Mortlake’s Botanical Gardens. So it’s not just your average park.

Ibis, Eastern Swamp Moorhens and lots of other birds can be seen too. Despite my intentions, I never uploaded my photos to the laptop for the blog. Sorry. Perhaps tomorrow.

Mr R said he heard a buzzing noise. I reckon it was a scissors-grinder – a little black&white fly catcher. I saw one on our last walk around the lake.

( Sent from my Windows Phone.)

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Birds, Travels

Feeding the Ducks

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Camping at Mortlake

Happy New Year everyone. After sweltering through 38C yesterday, we are now about to bed down in our canvas two-roomed tent – our first sleep on our Eurobed. I’m always nervous sleeping on an inflatable bed. We have one of our bedside lamps on, and the fan heater. Probably about 15C outside. Dark outside and a huge flock of noisy corellas sound like they are settling at last. The caravan park is almost part of the local parkland. Great amenities.

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In my pjamas, a nightie and a t-shirt.

Got my portable wi-fi, so stay tuned. Hope we’ve put the tent up well enough to withstand the wind.! 😊

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