This walk, from the 26th July, is mainly birds and bunnies. We did walk to the Caledonia Gully Reservoir today, but I took nearly 100 photos on our 7 km and I was too pooped to sort them. This one is a shorter walk, barely a kilometre, close to home.

First, just over the footbridge, I checked a low lying wattle for bees. Saw a fly, first.

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Not many bees, though. And it is more on the clover than on the wattle blossom.

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While walking up Argyle Street, the sticky beak cockatoo checked on us.

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Crossed Dairy Flat Road, and fluked this magpie launch.

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A yellow-rumped thornbill… Continue reading →

Wednesday Walk

Birds ‘n Bunnies

I donned my beanie and gumboots for a walk outside, armed with the Nikon D3000, hoping for some fresh pictures of birds basking in the winter sunshine. I got a lovely selection – sparrows, lorikeets, a wren – and then a pardalote landed in the lilac bush right before my eyes. Fortunately, it was just far enough away for the camera to focus.

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I thought it was a pardalote, at first, with the spots on the crown, but when it flew away I saw the golden yellow rump. I checked my bird book, and online, and decided it definitely was a yellow-rumped thornbill.

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