MY WORLD, World Bird and Watery Wednesday

There are compensations to be had away from civilisation. This

place is definitely one of them. My favourite caravan park is

in Jamieson, Victoria. Right on the Jamieson river, where we like

to stay in a lovely two bedroom cabin under a massive Pin-Oak

next to a park that also has a wonderful selection of mature, well

spaced deciduous trees.

This is definitely not your average caravan park, shady trees in the

summer and the most glorious colour in the autumn.

All I wanted to do is snap - trees, leaves, birds and mushrooms,

good heavens, which way to point the camera next???

A flock of Australian Wood Duck, Chenonetta jubata, grazing

on the riverbank.

Was I ever excited when I saw this bird on my computer!

A first for me. I am tipping on a Rufous Bristlebird, Dasyornis

broadbenti. I am hoping some Australian ornithologist can

confirm my most amateur identification or point me in the right

direction.

Correction: not a Bristlebird at all but a female Satin Bowerbird,

Chlamydera violaccus, thank you Stewart M for the identification.

Even so it was a first for me , I once saw a male in a Queensland rain

forest but have never seen them in Victoria before.

A walk around this charming little township also netted a few

Australian King Parrots, Alisterus scapularis,

male above and probably female below.

A chocolate-box study of Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos, Cacatua

galerita,

. . . and for Watery Wednesday, a shot of the quietly flowing

waters of the Jamieson River.

So from one blessed riverbank to the next, your roving reporter

will send the next instalment from the banks of the Ovens river.

We are having some worrying lights flashing in our vehicle and

will have a somewhat longer enforced stay at the home of the

Autumn Leaf festival while waiting for a booking with a reputable

Hyundai service department, did you hear me complaining? Not likely!

We are taking it easy and going out for lunch listening to the river

rushing past and having lovely long walks. I could spend a lot of time

this way.

See you all again soon . . . your roving reporter (in the slow lane)

signing off for now . . .

PS all photos enlarge of course.