Garden birdlife

We are lucky to have a variety of birdlife that frequents or garden.  This year we have been fortunate to see the rearing of three red throated wattle birds. We first noticed the nestlings in one of the trees in the front garden.  It was difficult to get up close enough to get a photo…

Local bird life while gardening

This one is fairly obvious in the tree, a kookaburra.  I was removing some old sleepers and there were lots of bugs underneath.  A group of six kookaburras was hanging about looking for a feed. (There is no specific collective noun for kookaburras but I like the idea of a cackle of kookaburras.)  When I…