Sunday Selections #495

Sunday Selections was originally brought to us by Kim, of Frogpondsrock, as an ongoing meme where participants could post previously unused photos languishing in their files.

Huge thanks to Cie who gave me this wonderful Sunday Selections image.
  
The meme was then continued by River at Drifting through life.  Sadly she has now stepped aside (though she will join us some weeks), and I have accepted the mantle.
 
The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to me. Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen. 
 
I usually run with a theme.  I am continuing all of my voluntary work during the pandemic (and indeed it is busier and more needed than ever).  Last Tuesday I was wearing my Lifeline supporter/supervisory hat and did a shift which finished a little after midnight.  It was busy, confronting and tiring.  I wound down and went to sleep.  A certain cat decided I HAD to get up shortly after four on Wednesday.

I did.  When dawn broke it was a cool, damp and grey day.  I was tired and more than usually brain dead.  When himself suggested a drive to see it there was any water being released from the Cotter Dam, I jumped at the chance and off we went. 

So, rather than walking with me, come drive with us...  Mind you, I got out of the car to take these photos.  Himself stayed in the dry.

We saw EMUS.  Wet emus.  In two separate locations.  We know that they are in the area, but very, very rarely see them.  And, as an aside, emus are also known in the family as Mee-Yous.  A work colleague's child called them that many years ago and we liked the name and adopted it.

The emu and the kangaroo both appear on the Australian coat of arms.  Something which is, I think, unique to Australia is that both our emblematic animals are eaten.

There was no water to speak of coming over the spillway but there was more water in the river than we have seen for a very long time.  Lovely.

When we got home again both the birds and the cats were shrieking of neglect.  So we fed them both.

Some of the birds demanded a more personal approach than the feeders.  

These photos were taken in a very short period (five or six minutes), and show birds jockeying for the seed bucket himself was holding.  (They are all taken looking out through one of our windows.

First a crimson rosella, who was evicted by a sulphur crested cockatoo.

The cockatoo was bounced by the very hungry crimson rosella .  He didn't hold his vantage spot for long, and a pair of King Parrots moved in (female with the green head and male with the orange head).

Himself had to use both hands as the crimson rosella moved in again.

 I hope that your days are filled with us much joy as this busy interlude gave us.