tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10486485451294252442024-03-06T09:02:22.712+11:00Snap Happy Birdinga place to share my record bird images with their locationsCarole M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13261384312136535762noreply@blogger.comBlogger958125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048648545129425244.post-6264241821088700872014-08-29T15:05:00.001+10:002014-08-29T15:05:18.058+10:00is there a better way to ... say goodbye? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm not sure how best sums up the times of late when I've considered putting Snap Happy Birding, (and Snap Happy Online), to rest. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deep breath here, gosh, for a time I was counting the posts, thinking that I would need to come up with something a little special for post 1,000 when it ventured into cyberspace. Instead, now on post #958, I'm closing the door. Somewhat reluctantly, and very gently too, so you can barely hear it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Know that I've totally loved taking snapshots for the purpose of sharing. Most who visited my blogs are from overseas, and like you, I find it interesting to see and compare notes, from the other side of the world, whatever the topic may be.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many of you have stopped by on a very regular basis, and I've always appreciated that, and of course, the comments you left behind. Your names and faces are indelible in my mind, as if you live locally. I visualize your part of the world also since you've shared this too. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An interesting journey; I've learnt a lot from each of you on your own blogs. Thank you so much, I've enjoyed your friendly banter, and I'm sure that when I hit POST on this, that I will think of something much more suited perhaps, and well-put, for my finale' post. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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It's often late at night when I'm in the kitchen making a hot milk and honey drink, and, a good sprinkling of cinnamon on top. I really love that night-cap in the midst of cold winter nights.<br />
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And while I'm doing that, the radio is switched on, and I listened recently with interest to a talk-back caller saying to the host, "guess what I'm knitting?". Bootees? Socks?? A long pause, so tell us??<br />
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The answer was, <span style="color: #990000;">jumpers for penguins</span>!<br />
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For penguins caught up in oil-spills; after they have been cleaned, they get their very own jumper. It doesn't have to be khaki, or even black and white ------- it can be ANY colour. Just imagine seeing these little penguins waddling around in their brightly coloured knitteds. That makes me smile.<br />
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You can see one, and read all about this project <a href="http://penguinfoundation.org.au/about-the-penguin-foundation/wildlife-rehabilitation/" style="text-decoration: underline;">here</a> from the Penguin Foundation, at Phillip Island in Victoria. Good news is, they currently have enough to fill the wardrobes of all penguins anticipated to need a jumper for a while.<br />
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Quaint story isn't it?<br />
<br />Carole M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13261384312136535762noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048648545129425244.post-32584772961104753662014-08-18T18:57:00.001+10:002014-08-18T18:57:16.992+10:00Eastern Yellow RobinOn a cold, windy and drizzly rain night along the east coast of Australia, I'm posting something cheery.<br />
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Like many things in life, it's pretty hard to ... nail a favourite. Your favourite colour, favourite flower, favourite bird?<br />
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The Eastern Yellow Robin is indeed a charmer; I guess it's that little dash of sunshine in the shadows that does it for me. <br />
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I could've cloned out the broken stick, but hey - that's how it was, nature isn't always perfect. And the camera angle can't always be spot-on with just precious moments to capture the moment, agree? Do you discard these images every time? I liked that E.Y.Robin had it's tail fanned out some and a sparkle in the eye too. If I'd have managed a second hit right there without the broken twig, I'd have discarded this one, but since I didn't .....it's a keeper (record-shot) to share.</div>
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There were a number of Darters taking time out in these Casuarinas.<br />
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Dusky Moorhen was there<br />
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Sharing with <a href="http://viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/saturdays-critters-37.html"><i><span style="color: #351c75;">Saturday's Critters</span></i></a></div>
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Within the next fifteen minutes someone spotted a White-Bellied Sea-Eagle. It was way over the other side of the lagoon there, and being hassled by a crow.<br />
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a breezy morning, and Kookaburra was on duty</div>
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Amazing how they will spot the movement of a worm or grub moving under the surface of the soil. I'm hoping it visits regularly as the weather warms up and this <i><a href="http://dragonfly47.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/a-short-garden-excursion.html">Whip Snake</a> </i>I've spotted a couple times over, is likely to awake from hiding spot! Another pair of eyes watching out; ideally those of a kookaburra, would be rather handy from my point.</div>
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another was sitting in the cold shade in the bush corridor outside the fence, with feathers fluffed and keeping its feet warm.</div>
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After walking about the Bush Telegraph Station at Alice Springs, N.T. <i><span style="color: #990000;">this post</span></i> (Snap Happy Online), I ventured outside the boundaries to the 'waterhole' behind; looking for birds. <br />
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Alice Springs Waterhole, dry...how dry?<br />
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one of the many wonderful hanging artwork by students of the School of the Air, in Alice Springs. Well done Darcy! Their website is <i><a href="http://www.assoa.nt.edu.au/">here</a></i>.</div>
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Here's a good little spot to pull up a while; can see a White Ibis out there .. what else?</div>
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One advantage of a grey day was the lovely light and reflectons on this little wetland area </div>
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walking through the <i style="color: #660000;"><a href="http://tasteaustralia.biz/bushfood/samphire/">Samphire</a>. </i>It's a delicacy; have you tried it? When I first recognised it growing on another walk near to home in February 2012, I wrote <a href="http://dragonfly47.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/some-samphire-birds-and-skies.html"><span style="color: #660000;"><i>this post</i></span></a></div>
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beautiful trees; interesting textures, and lovely lichens beside the creek</div>
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noxious weed (native to S.E. Africa) with a pretty yellow flower, is known as <a href="http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/pests-weeds/weeds/profiles/fireweed"><span style="color: #660000;"><i>Fireweed</i></span></a></div>
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and another of the Eastern Yellow Robins, which proved to be our bird of the day </div>
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Good on you little Eastern Yellow Robin!!<br />
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It was just jesterday morning, with a cool start and grey skies, but what better to warm the cockles of your heart, than to spot a beautiful little Eastern Yellow Robin, first up. <br />
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walking the track, a 2 km. route, with the occasional jogger, and cyclists to contend with. They hadn't been expecting two women standing on the pathway just around the bend, binoculars fixed to their eyes and cameras at the ready. All cheery, g'days exchanged.</div>
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but not complete without the Jenny-wren (female)</div>
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...it's all so easy to walk by a tree and not notice that a certain bird is sitting in it. I'm so used to trying to find little birds hiding behind the tracery of branches and foliages instead!</div>
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Take this eucalypt (gum) tree; on the right side of the trunk, just before the first long branch on that side ... there's a little broken stub of a branch, and there's something perched there. Now who would've known, so OUT THERE?! Someone in our birding group that day spotted it; well done I say! Shall we look a little closer at it then?</div>
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Tawny Frogmouths ..they make me smile; quirky little beings with their beak pointing to the sky trying to make out it's just another branch, and they do camouflage SO well, don't they? </div>
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Read about (and hear), the Tawny Frogmouth on this Birds in Backyards fact-sheet <a href="http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Podargus-strigoides"><i><span style="color: #660000;">here</span></i></a></div>
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<a href="http://birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/australian-bustard">Australian Bustard</a> seen at Desert Park, Alice Springs, N.T.<br />
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Setting the beautiful scene, the backdrop is the MacDonnell Ranges, Northern Territory, and on that dead tree at the fore, a little left of centre, near to the dark shadow, a Brown Falcon will fly ..<br />
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no smoke and mirrors here; this is why ... a tasty, meaty morsel reward<br />
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<i><span style="color: #990000;">Later addition</span></i> since some have thought I was feeding this raptor. No, not me -- this was the handler from the bird presentation. Note location at top of post "Desert Park, NT", as in previous post for the Barn Owl, Bush Stone-Curlew, and Tawny Frogmouth.</div>
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<br />Carole M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13261384312136535762noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048648545129425244.post-25853955083940470472014-06-28T22:05:00.002+10:002014-06-29T08:58:01.568+10:00Barn Owl, Bush stone-curlew, and Tawny FrogmouthPhotos taken at the bird presentation at Desert Park, N.T.
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as close as I'll ever get to a <a href="http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Burhinus-grallarius">Bush stone-curlew</a>! This one was happy to walk around amongst everyone while the handler was happy to throw the occasional meal-worm along the way</div>
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and, lucky me, I happened to be sitting right under a sleepy <a href="http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Podargus-strigoides">Tawny Frogmouth</a>!</div>
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<br />Carole M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13261384312136535762noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048648545129425244.post-72097475426232987722014-06-24T21:31:00.001+10:002014-06-25T21:02:19.799+10:00Western Bowerbird with video<i>Sighted recently, at Olive Pink Botanic Garden, Alice Springs, N.T.</i><br />
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Miss Olive Pink, "in 1956, at the age of 72, was successful in having the Australian Arid Regions Flora Reserve" gazetted. You can<a href="http://www.opbg.com.au/about-us/"> <span style="color: #660000;">download the brochure</span></a> with information of this notable woman and her determined efforts against the odds of droughts, feral grazing animals etc.</div>
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walking through this landscape, myself and another couple, had met up with a hobby photographer and his wife, carrying the big tripod and massive 600mm camouflage-covered lens on his shoulder. Of course we chatted a while, and he mentioned to us about the bower "over that way".</div>
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and while admiring the bower with white plastic collectibles and a single <a href="http://www.nullarbornet.com.au/themes/quandongs.html"><span style="color: #660000;"><i>quandong</i></span></a> fruit,</div>
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the first time I've ever seen this beautiful bird. How lucky can you get?!</div>
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Fact sheet from Birds in Backyards on the <i><span style="color: #660000;"><a href="http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Ptilonorhynchus-guttatus">Western Bowerbird</a></span></i><br />
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when the group returned to the coach after walking this beautiful location, at Ormiston Gorge, N.T. </div>
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and...for more recent locations about N.T., please just check in at <i><a href="http://snaphappyonline.blogspot.com.au/">Snap Happy Online</a></i></div>
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<br />Carole M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13261384312136535762noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048648545129425244.post-44437902444928647282014-06-21T11:04:00.000+10:002014-06-22T12:09:23.407+10:00Whistling KiteI think this is the Whistling Kite; I'm looking for affirmations on this one. (Confirmed, see later photo).<br />
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It would be great to think I just happened upon this snapshot in the wild, it certainly looks to be doesn't it? Instead, it was a grand photo opportunity during a free-flight raptor show at the Alice Springs Desert Park, N.T. </div>
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<i>New addition</i>: This photo taken by Paul Fergus, tour participant who also went home, referenced his photos, and found this to be the Whistling Kite; thanks Paul for your feedback, and sharing your super photo.</div>
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Have I whet your appetite with majestic scenery? The first of photos taken on my recent trip have been uploaded to <span style="color: #660000; font-style: italic;"><a href="http://snaphappyonline.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/a-little-from-my-recent-trip-to-alice.html"><span style="color: #660000;">Snap Happy Online</span></a>. </span>Hope you'll follow me there, and see what I saw for you too, the wonderful scenery and places of interest, from the Red Heart of Alice Springs to Uluru, in the Northern Territory.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Sharing with </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-style: italic;"><a href="http://viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/saturdays-critters-29.html">Saturday's Critters</a> </span>and <i><a href="http://id-rather-b-birdin.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/chick-fi-layed-but-first.html"><span style="color: #660000;">I'd Rather B Birdin'</span></a></i></span></div>
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Carole M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13261384312136535762noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048648545129425244.post-83416331140837213242014-06-20T17:31:00.001+10:002014-06-20T17:42:14.451+10:00Woodswallows bird artWhile I was away, an email arrived from Laure' Felita. I've long enjoyed reading Laure's posts on her <a href="http://paintedthoughtsblog.blogspot.com.au/">Painted Thoughts Blog</a>. If you have a smidgin' of drawing, sketching or painting in you, you're sure to find this blog inspirational. <br />
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Last month I shared this post, <span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://dragonfly47.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/a-row-of-white-breasted-woodswallows.html" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #660000;">a row of White-breasted Woodswallows</span></a><span style="color: #660000; font-style: italic;">, </span>showing more and more little Woodswallows, joining the queue. Within a comment on Laure's blog I offered her the challenge of painting them some time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Her response was immediate and enthusiastic .... and here's how Laure' has portrayed the sweet little birds in watercolour.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Thanks again Laure', I'm always admiring your artwork and really appreciate you taking time out to create this lovely art with your paintbrush.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I've just jumped over to Laure's blog and see she has written up a post telling all re the process of this art. Read it on <span style="color: #660000; font-style: italic;"><a href="http://paintedthoughtsblog.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/artistic-license-colorful-black-and-erk.html"><span style="color: #660000;">Artistic License, Colorful Black and (Erk!) Ink Blobs</span></a> </span>You already know it has a happy ending.</span><br />
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