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Pacific Baza

Pacific Baza

Other name for this stunning bird is Crested Hawk. It grows up to 36-45cm and has a wing span of 80cm. You can see how beautiful the blue sky behind makes the photo so nice looking, but unfortunately we photographers don't get a say, we just have to do what we can when we see the subject we want to photograph. Pacific-Baza  to wikipedia Their voice is a weak piping inflight, mellow double whistle, ee-choo, ee-choo descending. Their habitat is leafy trees on rainforests fringes; open forests; and woodlands; timbered watercourses; mangroves; well-treed suburbs. They breed from Oct-Dec and the...

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A Morning With The Rainbow Lorikeets

A Morning With The Rainbow Lorikeets

Unfortunately with Brisbane being in Lock Down again Lindy and I had to cancel our day road trip on Wednesday but I didn't mind as the Lorikeets on our property kept us entertained. Here is just a couple of photos that I took yesterday. Hope everyone is keeping safe. They love to interact with us humans and some of them are very acrobatic and often enjoy hanging upside down. Showing off their feathers is their specialty

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Entertaining Wrens

Entertaining Wrens

It is not always easy to spot the tiny Wrens but if you are lucky to spot them, you will find them just amazing to watch especially in their breeding season when the males are busy keeping an eye on all his females. Most wrens are very small and very quick and when not breeding they can be hard to find. The Variegated Fairy-Wren below is so colourful especially the male. Their size is 11cm-14.5cm.They breed from July-Mar  and a female will lay 3-4 eggs. Their preferred habitat is shrub associations, undergrowth, margins of clearing, woodlands, heaths,sand plain and dune...

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Crimson Rosella Preening Feathers

Crimson Rosella Preening Feathers

It is not always easy getting a photo of a bird in the wild in their natural environment. I have spotted these birds many times while on a photography day trip, but they were too far away and had many trees and branches between them and my camera, making it basically impossible to capture a nice shot.Oh you can get up close at some of these wildlife attractions where they feed them, but there is nothing more enjoyable or rewarding for me than to get them in the wild doing their own thingies. The Crimson Rosella is an Australian Native...

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Shoyoen Japanese Garden

Shoyoen Japanese Garden

Lindy and I spent a long time planning our trip to Dubbo in 2019. We didn't realise just how dry the countryside was until we did this trip, specifically to go to Dubbo Zoo and the Shoyoen Japanese Gardens which we had heard were beautiful. We couldn't get accommodation during the New South Wales September school holidays with all accommodation being fully booked out, This is when we were told was the peak time for the gardens. So we booked the last week of October and with it being so dry, the gardens were not at their peak, many things...

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