Wet and Aggressive Corella challenges Magpie

Wet and Aggressive Corella challenges Magpie
Showing posts with label long billed corella. Show all posts
Showing posts with label long billed corella. Show all posts

Sunday, 12 July 2020

Sunday Selections #489




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. Australia was doing really well on containing Covid 19.  WAS doing really well.  Our complacency has bitten us firmly on the fundament.  Numbers and tensions are rising.


I am again mostly home, which is where all of this week's selections come from.

The first are early morning photos in the garden.  I seem to have settled into a routine and head out with the camera a little before first light, and again when dawn has arrived.







You will be shocked and surprised that I continue to delight in the visiting birds.




This pair of King Parrots visit us daily.  They are not tame, but are very used to us and their trust is a privilege.




The long-beaked corella is another regular visitor and Susan Kane bitches/moans/complains/expresses her displeasure any time I post birds without a corella or two.

This week we were delighted to see a much rarer visitor in the tree across the road.  Yellow-tailed black cockatoos fly over us from time to time but don't often land.  Naturally I rushed out with the camera as soon as I heard its distinctive call and realised it had landed so close.  Like so many of our native birds it is far from musical and you can hear its song HERE.





I hope your weeks are health, happy and filled with unexpected treats.

Sunday, 4 December 2011

Sunday Selections




Sunday Selections, brought to us by Kim, of Frogpondsrock, is an ongoing theme where participants post previously unused photos languishing in their files. 

Anyone can join in, just post your photos under the Sunday Selections title, link back to Kim, then add your name to her Linky list at Frogpondsrock.

I have been featuring the birds who visit us for the last few weeks and, judging by my huge collection of bird photos, could do so indefinitely.

I know I posted photos of Corellas quite recently, but this long billed Corella appeared during the week and virtually demanded his photo be taken.  So I did.  We also get the short billed Corellas who don't have this bird's splashes of pinky-orange on their heads and breasts.










Isn't he (or she) gorgeous?