Happy Fathers day to all those fathers out there and HAPPY SPRING to me. We have had blues skies and slightly warmer days and joy of joys the birds are nesting.
I have pardalotes digging a nest burrow near my front door which makes me extraordinarily happy.
The honey eaters are busily gathering cobwebs from the outside of my windows and under the eaves of the back door. I haven’t managed to photograph the honeyeaters yet as they are seriously fast and flitty.
I was really surprised when a pair of Welcome swallows flew into the studio on Friday. As we are up in the hills and have a much later spring than those down in the lowlands, the swallows used to always arrive on Veronica’s birthday in early November. Each year they would arrive a little bit earlier until it wasn’t uncommon to see them up here flitting around hunting insects in the first week of October. To see the swallows this early is amazing as they are a month ahead of schedule.
Last year the swallows made a nest underneath the sisalation in the roof of the studio. At the time the studio was still being fitted out as a proper work space and it didn’t really matter if I left the roller door open for them to come and go. This year it will be a different matter as it is a proper working studio now and the swallows and I will have to work out how best to share the space.
I took these photos last summer.
I took this photo as I was at the sink doing the dishes. The glass in my kitchen window is very old and it has given this photo a lovely wavy effect. This is a Green Rosella eating the flowers on my flowering currant.
The forest Ravens are having their annual turf war in the skies above my house. There seems to be a small patch of sky that is very desirable and three opposing groups of Ravens are busily chasing each other out of this piece of sky. I love watching the Ravens but they are another bird that are very hard to photograph as they are seriously wary of The Spouse and fly away at great speed whenever he goes outside.
Each group has a sentinel in a tree watching out for danger as well as providing a Dennis Cometti style running commentary on the action in the sky.
The Blurb
I take a lot of photos and most of them are just sitting around in folders on my desktop not doing anything. I thought that a dedicated post once a week would be a good way to share some of these photos that otherwise wouldn’t be seen by anyone other than me.
I am also remarkably absent minded and I put photos into folders and think that I will publish them later on and then then I never do.
So I have started a photo meme that anyone can join in and play as well. The rules are so simple as to be virtually non existent.
Just add your name and URL to the Mr Linky.
Publish your photos on your blog using the “Sunday Selections” title.
Link back here to me.
Easy Peasy.
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Birds are one of my obsessions so I LOVE these shots. We get the spotted pardalotes but I have never managed to capture them on camera as they move so fast so I am seriously in awe of your shot. Beautiful. Thanks.
I was just in the right place at the right time for that shot EC, I managed to quickly snap 4 photos before he/she flew away. I have been outside a bit while they have been nesting and they are not as wary of me as they were last week. They hang around for about 5 seconds now looking at me before they zoom off.
I love the green rosella. And the tiny waves in the photo from your window glass.
I heard a crow calling as he was flying over yesterday but wasn’t quick enough with the camera.
I waited for his mate, they usually fly in pairs, but he was alone….
I did as well River 🙂 I have been trying to take some photos on an angle out of the window because then the ripples in the glass are really highlighted.
Gotta love those birdies 😉
We have an assortment of grevilleas and Geraldton waxes growing on the sandy banking at the back of our house. I watch the wrens, silvereyes and honeyeaters from my craft room window and even manage to take the odd shot of them through the glass with the zoom lens at full stretch on my little camera. If I go outside all there is to be seen of them is a lot of twitching in the shrubs! Lots of crows, magpies, wagtails, Purple-crowned Lorikeets and Ringnecks (28s) and last year I saw a few Western Rosellas and Red-capped Parrots for the first time. This year’s first so far has been a handsome, and very cheeky, Western Spinebill whose picture I managed to take quite easily he was such a poser 😉
Good Morning all..and Happy Spring to you too. Seeing your beautiful photos Kim made me realise that my shots are not so real…actually the flowers are real, but the situation I found them in, not…but anyway, if anyone wants a peak at the Sydney David Jones Floral tribute to spring, that’s my link today. D 🙂
Hope I’ve not bent the rules Kim by posting of an amazing opportunity I’ve been chosen to participate in … who’d have thought this emerging late bloomer … would score a gig here.
My week has been stupendous. Hope everyone’s has been too and will be in the week to come. Happy Father’s Day ?
Love the photos, especially of that cheeky swallow looking down on you, loved it last year and it’s still a fav 🙂
Love the photos especially the first one.
I love the birds in the trees, the backdrop colours are fantastic.
I love to take photos of birds, but they are so far most of the time (other than the ones we feed on the balcony). The dusk shot is my favourite: dark silhouette against dark sky, love it!
Love those birds in your studio, particularly the one peeking out from behind the sarking. I’ve never heard of forest ravens before. Are they like crows?
I love the pardalote, so adorable! Happy Spring and Father’s Day, and Labor day here, where summer is nearly over.
I’m still planting lettuce and sugar snap peas, as the weather will still be decent for quite awhile. Wish I could get close-up shots of birds as you do. I’ll keep trying.