It seems that Sunday arrives slightly faster each week, as if the year has reached its middle and has decided to zip on down the slope to Christmas.
I was exporting my photos to my external hard drive when I found these two photos of a Currawong. This bird had fallen out of its nest and my friend raised it. His children called it Chucky because Currawongs regurgitate a hard pellet of food waste that is indigestable. These pellets are always really interesting to poke apart with a stick when I find them because they are full of beetles wings and other small interesting bits and pieces.
These photos were taken with my panasonic lumix point and shoot in early 2010.
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.
Here are my photos for this week.
The Photos.
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That is a very curious look in the first picture, a ‘hello, I wonder what you are up to’ kind of look 😀
I think he was hoping that I would feed him.
Currawongs have such a lovely song. Unfortunately, the beastly mynas bully them away here.
I don’t have miners/mynahs here, though they are down the hill a bit. I think I am up too high for them.
Chucky looks pretty damn intelligent (and scary) for a bird. Watching ‘The Birds’ has scarred me for life. 😉
I remember as a child, wanting to take an umbrella with me in case of bird attack. Alfred Hitchcock has a lot to answer to 🙂
Love him. And love, love, love their gurgle. They are top of the pecking order at our place and chase everything else off the feeder.
They are pretty cheeky here and I have to race them when the plums are ripe as they have developed a bit of a fancy for my plums. Good thing I have four trees so there is enough for everyone.
There is a fair bit of intelligence in that there birdy, sizing you up I think. Great photos Kim.
They are very intelligent. I enjoy watching them Kakka. These photos were easy because the bird was tame, the wild ones are a bit trickier to photograph.
Really great close-ups! I don’t think I’ve seen a Currawong. Are the Mynahs those black birds with yellow beaks? There’s a few of those around here. I often hear lots of pretty bird calls, but the birds are always high up in leafy trees and can’t be seen.
“…zip on down the slope to Christmas.”
Thanks for the reminder, I have to start lay-bying stuff now.
Here is a link to the noisy miners compared to Indian mynahs site River. I am going to be very frugal this Christmas. I am a bit over the commercialism of it all and I might just make presents this year.
Love it! I love wild birds.
This morning we saw a pair of plovers with 4 of the most gorgeous chicks (insane time of year to be having chicks), and then a flock of ducks flew over followed by a pair of raptors (which I didn’t get a close enough look at – they could be ospreys but I didn’t hear them call or see their eyes and I was looking up into the light so I couldn’t tell).
Awesomeness.
Awesome pics. I haven’t seen a currawong in years but have fond memories of listening to the currawongs that lived in our currajong tree when I was little.
awesome shots! He looks very curious
I almost picked up a bird that was fallen out of its nest, but I realised that I had no idea what kind of bird it was and what to feed it. The parents were circling nearby making an awful lot of noise, so I just took the bird closer to the bushes and away from the road. I hope it ended up ok.
That’s a very formidable looking beak! Haven’t seen one of those – not even sure is we have them here in the SW. I have been hugely entertained by our robins who are in full colour now and very cheeky with it!
Hi Kim … haven’t popped in for a bit! Fantastic photos!!! Love the names you have for your birds!!! Sound melodic!
Wow that is stunning!! 🙂 x
These are outstanding!
I like him. He looks very, very intelligent.