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22.5.14

JUST FOR YOU BADGER: BIRDS IN MY YARD... (SOME I PREPARED EARLIER)

 Due to illness I have been unable to find the energy to blog of late, however after being "badgered" by one of my favourite followers, I have managed to find a post I prepared earlier which won't tax me too much to put up.  There is a longer one of my recent travels in the pipeline. 
Firstly, a pale headed rosella taking advantage of a seed bell in the neighbour's yard.
 Above, is a naughty, baby bluefaced honey eater refusing to get back to the nest.  
This very sweet bird is a rufous whistler.  Haven't seen it again.
This goshawk (I think it is anyway) was sitting in my tree and I spotted it as I drove around the corner one day. I didn't have my best camera but stopped in the street and took a photo through my windscreen, fearing that the minute I drove in, it would fly off.  And it did.
Now I'm going back to bed. Sorry there are no links.  Will add them later.

6 comments:

  1. Hi Sandy, sorry to hear you're feeling crook. Bed's definitely the best place.
    A beaut little Rosella there - at first glance I thought it was a budgie.
    Lovely capture of the naughty honeyeater too. Beautiful markings on the Rufous Whistler and I'd never seen a Goshawk so close before.
    All the best :D)

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    1. Thank you muchly Susan, am on the mend. Shame my bed hasn't got a good view of my feathered visitors! Spotting that goshawk was such a great experience, just sorry I couldn't get a better shot or watch him for longer.

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  2. That is a fabulous photo of a Rosella. When we were in Australia last year we stayed on the south coast in a little rented house with a garden and we had so many beautiful birds come and visit us it almost made me cry. My birds are not a patch on yours.

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    1. Thank you Badger, I get tears of frustration when they're too quick to snap. I do love our parrots but I'm sure your (adopted) birds are just as pretty, those red ones are gorgeous, cardinals I think you said. You'll have to try to get a shot of some of the humming birds they have over there.

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  3. Colours are magnificent as always Sandy, really captures the Rosella. Hope you're back on your feet soon too.

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    1. Thanks Liana, not long now... surely???

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