When you go to Grant’s Picnic Grounds in Kallista you can get up close and personal to the birds. The kiosk sells birdseed to the tourists and visitors. In these shots I’d taken a family member from interstate to visit the grounds and experience getting up close and personal to these beautiful birds. I believe this bird is a juvenile.
I hope you have a Merry Christmas and that today is a day filled with love, joy, blessings and many good things. No-one should be alone on a day like today so if you can, reach out to someone you know is alone, or if you are alone, I hope and pray that someone reaches out to you.
Our daughters and their husbands, and our beautiful grandson, will be sharing the evening meal with us today.
This photo was taken earlier this year of a King Parrot family on our driveway gate. Aren’t they gorgeous?
This pair were watching to see if I was putting out any more feed recently in our garden. These parrots don’t seem to be afraid, that is they’re used to having humans in close proximity. I know they hang around my neighbour’s deck out the back as he has a pet Corella living there and it’s on the second story so on tree top level. But they often visit our property too.
The one with the brilliant red is the male.
I love watching the birdlife in our garden and consider my husband and I to be very blessed indeed. We live in such a beautiful part of Australia.
The Australian King Parrot is a large parrot and the male have a completely red head and the female completely green. Both have red tummies and green backs. You often see them travelling in pairs together. Below is a male and female who came visiting our garden recently to see what food might have been on offer. We do have feeders in different parts of our garden and while I don’t feed them regularly, as I don’t want them to become dependent on us, I do periodically put food out, purely to witness the colour and beauty of these and other birds.
I was watching two Australian King Parrots in my garden and kept a distance so I wouldn’t scare them away. Managed to get a few shots and moved in a bit closer at each click. The male had noticed me and then took off and I thought that was that. Imagine my surprise when he actually flew to the tree I was under and perched above me to see what I was doing.
This beautiful bird was on a feeder outside the window of the Kallista Tea rooms when we visited on Mother’s Day.
A photo of a blue banded bee I took led me to a path of discovery. I began researching to find out what kind of bee it was. I've actually learnt lots of things since that day and can now name almost every bird in this region and identify it by its call too. Apart from improving my skills in photography and learning more about my camera, lighting, settings, etc, I've learnt so much more about the environment in which I live. [Read More …]
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