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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. Thomas Osbert Mordaunt My Cat & Dog are my fav's. Kiwi living in Sydney Australia
9 times out of 10, I can sit quietly and patiently while dealing with heat and dust and flies - and get nothing. Then, on that 10th time, the universe will gift me a moment like this. Two cockatiels landed right in front of me at Gluepot - right in the spot I was hoping they would land. A miracle!
I took this photo of a male mulga parrot while at my camping ground. You really don't have to walk far to go birding sometimes. Gluepot Reserve, South Australia.
Due to heavy autumn and winter rains across central Australia, I predicted that it would be a bumper spring/summer season for budgies and cockatiels. Well, I wasn't wrong! There were 1000s of budgies and cockatiels at Gluepot. That's not an exaggeration. It was incredible.
A small sand goanna at Gluepot Reserve. It didn't give me much of an opportunity to get photos. They don't tend to hang around 😄
Today is #Stunday and I think the milky way is stunning. To stand and look deep into the edge of our galaxy is humbling. Especially when viewed in a dark sky location. It's visible along the coast of North Florida. #photography #landscape #ECK #MilkyWay #stars #astronomy #space #astrophotography
So ... this is what I was doing on my Sunday morning. How was yours? A cockatiel enjoying a drink at Gluepot Reserve. #birdsseenin2026
The New Yorker posted exactly how I interpreted the whole visit.
The young Adelaide rosella being fed by its parent in one of my backyard apple trees. (As I tried to hide behind a rose bush 😄)
I heard rosellas outside. So I grabbed my camera and snuck out the back and waited. Amazingly, an adult and young one flew into my backyard. I wasn't very well hidden so it's a bit of a miracle they didn't skidaddle. The adult went down on the ground to feast on the freshly whipper-snippered grass 😀
Happy Wrensday Wednesday! A male white-winged fairywren at the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden. #wrensday
A female white-winged fairywren (with food for the kids) on the farm near Quorn, South Australia. #wrensday
Fat little wild budgies 🙂 This is the natural colour of budgerigars. You don't find blue, purple, etc budgies in the wild. Also, Americans call these 'parakeets'. Most Australians won't recognise that bird name. (It took me years to figure out that parakeets were actually budgies.)
Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo. Southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
Not long ago, two Adelaide rosellas visited my backyard and came to drink at the birdbath. I took this through my dirty window and between the plantation shutters 😂 Not perfect - but you get the idea. Such lovely backyard birds. #birdsseenin2026
I know it's not Wrensday Wednesday, but I visited the Arid Lands again this afternoon and got some nice shots of the white-winged fairywrens there. Here's one on the ground. Quite a contrast - the electric blue against the red earth.
Mississippi Fred McDowell '65. 🎶'Going Down To The River' #blues #bluesmusic
Some days, you just gotta take the week one year at a time.
