my apple...

My apple or 6 a day drives you crazy but gives me bliss...


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me and my fish...

Seagull roaming the tables outside the Portsea Hotel .
I especially loved the fish shape shadow it seemed to cast.


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all in the game...

Sulphur-crested cockatoos have a habit of not quite matching their weight with the strength of a branch.
But it's all in the game.
This photo was taken near Dromana beach.


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Friends or Accidental Acquaintances?

Kookaburra and magpie together on my verandah


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Distant Wedge-Tailed Eagle

Yes. It is rather distant.
But I was so pleased capturing my first photo of a wedge-tailed eagle in my peninsula world.


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Rainbow Lorikeets

Rainbow lorikeets in my gum tree - for a brief moment.
These distinctive birds are found mainly along the northern and eastern seaboards of Australia.



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Profiles of the Noisy Miner

Noisy miner, a native Australian bird, posing on my back verandah in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula.


Though of average size, these birds have been known to attack larger birds such as hawks and kookaburras in their bid to claim territory.


The noisy miner is also known as the mickey bird or soldier bird.
In Brisbane they have been recorded as attacking domestic cats and dogs in mobs.
See HERE.


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Someone's Baby at Coolart

This little one was swimming around in the Coolart wetlands.
He seemed alone.
I have no idea whose baby this may be.
Any ideas?




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Pukeko at Coolart

Pukeko or New Zealand swamp hen at Coolart wetlands in Somers.




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Swallow at Coolart

I was delighted to capture this little character at Coolart wetlands.


I have never seen a swallow with this colouring before.




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Straw-Necked Ibis at Coolart

If you wish to see a range of birds nesting, Spring is the best time to visit Coolart wetlands at Somers on the Mornington Peninsula.


The straw-necked ibis has fascinating feather colours that shine and change in the sunlight.




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Great Cormorants at Coolart

These two Great Cormorants I sighted at Coolart Wetlands today on the Mornington Peninsula.


They spent quite some time together on this branch, just fluffing their wings.


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Crested Pigeons at Moorabbin

While wandering a park at Moorabbin and trying to dodge cold winds, I found this crested pigeon.


And then I saw his friends.

This crested pigeon is native to Australia
and has a peculiar whistling sound in flight.


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I'm Cold and Damp

It was a rainy, grey morning - not very enticing for wandering with a camera.
I was sitting in the car waiting for hubby.
Above, on the fence, beneath a palm, was this little fluffed up character.


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Airing the Wings

Muscovy duck at Hillview Community Reserve wetlands, Dromana


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Weekend Reflections

Little Blue Heron

The white faced or little blue heron is supposed to be the most commonly seen heron in Australia.
But this was the first - 2008 - and last time I have ever seen one.
Perhaps young - the legs are not very yellow
- I found this character wandering alone at Sorrento on Port Phillip Bay.


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Bronzewing Beauty

A regular visitor to my peninsula world is the bronzewing -
related to the pigeon.
He is always alone.
And wherever he chooses to rest, he stays there for at least an hour.
This is the first time I have seen him on my roofline.
Usually he is tucked away on the ground beneath low hanging bushes.





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That Guinea Fowl!

I can't resist another photo of the "not-so-glamorous" guinea fowl.
He seems to taunt me at the Enchanted Maze Garden, Arthurs Seat.
Just as I am ready to take his photo, he moves.
On this occasion, in the early morning Winter light, he was not by the lake.
He was walking just ahead of me on one of the tracks.
As he turned around - CLICK!


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Shadow Shot Sunday 2

Gammy

Meet the guy we call Gammy.
He is a sulphur-crested cockatoo with a broken wing; it won't fold in to his body.
But still he flies and makes his presence loudly felt in the neighbourhood.
Definitely a character with the strength of a wild spirit.


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Guinea Fowl

Guinea fowl by the lake (with the ducks)  at the Enchanted Maze Garden, Arthurs Seat on the Mornington Peninsula.


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