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Breeding Ospreys
I spent a few hours watching this young female and male Osprey yesterday building their relationship with each other and building their nest together. They were building their nest on a man made tower especially built for them to nest. They are mostly located on or near our coastal rivers, inlets, coastlines and islands. Their breeding season in northern Australia is April-July and Southern parts of Australia July-Sept Both the female and the male frequently left the nest during that 2 hours of watching them. Sometimes they came back with sticks, sometimes they came back with a fish. There was...
Gentle Giants
It is amazing that Pelicans have been around for so long. Fossil evidence of pelicans dates back at least 30 million years and it would be hard to believe that these very gentle birds could ever be a species of the dangerous dinosaurs. I loved travelling to the coast with my Mum and Dad and siblings when we were little and enjoyed watching in sheer amazement these great big white angels of the sky, the way they silently and gracefully glided around with very little effort. Along the waters edge, they would waddle up near us, I suppose they...
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