Wild Bird Wednesday - New Holland Honeyeater

All winter this Grevillea has been flowering and feeding the 

resident New Holland Honeyeater as well as a few others.

Now, also this large Banksia is full of delicious nectar and well 

worth protecting.

A quick feed and 

back to sentry duty warding off the much larger Wattle Birds.

There's one . . . come on boys, attack!

Linking with

Wild Bird Wednesday

with thanks to Stewart for hosting the meme.

OuR WORLD - Spring in the Grampians

The main from Hall's Gap to the Great Western Highway was

still closed after a rain-even at the beginning of the year that

washed away steep roads and bridges. To get home, we had to

take the dirt road to Rose's Gap and Mt.Zero. It looks rather

unprepossessing,

the bush was still fire-scarred but if you get out of the car and

look more closely,

you are bound to be surprised at what you can find. Pink heath

in bloom,

a gentle touch of yellow,

up close is a little beauty.

The much rarer white heath,

and in thick scrub, tiny white stars.

This looks like nothing much but if you enlarge it you will see

that all those bushes are actually in flower!

Little things with not only pretty flowers but also interesting

foliage.

This bush was a good 5' high, with pretty pea flowers.

Little things blooming literally underfoot,

and this pure white grevillea providing nectar for honeyeaters.

Behind it all, the backbone of these mountains towering up high.

If you are still interested, next week, there will be a second instalment.

All photos enlarge of course.

Come one, come all and show us what your world is made of! Click on the

Logo at right to enter a world of wonders or show us what is special in yours.

World Bird Wednesday ~ New Holland Honeyeater

New Holland Honeyeater, Philydonyris novaehollandiae,

feeding on a Grevillea bush.

Spotted in Port Elliot, South Australia after a lovely lunch at

the local hotel.

He happily foraged, while I just as happily photographed.

So nice of him to strike a pose for me.

Click on the Logo at right and see a wealth of birds.

MY WORLD ~ 24 The Way Home

Please enlarge at least a few, especially this one.



A rare sighting in the wild, a Platypus going home
after breakfast. I only got one shot at him with my
hand held 300mm lens with very dull light. A Platypus
has a duck bill, webbed feet, a Beaver tail and is a
monotreme raising its young in a burrow in the riverbank
and feeding on the floor of the river.

These photos are shot at the campground in more affordable
accomodation at Carnarvon gorge than our first night.
Unfortunately we could not stay longer, but will go
back again someday to explore further. Carnarvon Nat.
Pk. is located in Central Queensland and well worth
spending lots of time in.



An Apostle bird, again at dawn with insufficient light.
It glories in this apellation since they are usually seen
in groups of twelve.



A young Painted Kangaroo, so different from those
on our farm in South Australia.



A last look back at the Carnarvon Gorge Park.

Our largest raptor, the Wedgetail Eagle with road

kill. Sorry, I only got one shot at it.

Progressing south, some Grevillea eye candy

and two Butterflies doing what Butterflies do. Note

the male is so much smaller than the female.This

was at Hebel, a tiny town in the middle of nowhere

with a cafe serving delicious home made cake.

The pretty female with red spots on her tail.

Dawn in St.George with a profusion of Dusky

Woodswallows waiting for the sun to rise.

St.George was one of our three staging posts

between the gorge and home. The return trip to

Yeppoon topped 5,000km!

The first rays of the sun saw this young Galah

training for the Olympic pole vault.

We bought two steaks in St.George which we

consumed in the cabin below and kicked ourselves

all the way home for not getting a dozen of them

since they were the best we had ever eaten.

For our last night, we lashed out again and stayed

in the luxury of a waterfront cabin at Gol Gol with

autumn colour and a view across the Murray river.

I am not sure if I will have internet access next week

as we are off on our travels to enjoy this year's autumn

colours in the high country of Victoria and to celebrate

our 51st. wedding anniversary.

To see what others are doing on our planet, click on Logo.

To Klaus and the MY WORLD team, hats off guys for hosting

this wonderful meme.