Bird watch

Birds....we love them!

Our bird variety count  has increased dramatically since we first moved in here 20 years ago.

 In recent years, Bill has been keeping a close watch on any new arrivals to the property and has meticulously recorded them. ( It's up there with the rainfall tally!)

He loves searching in his bird book collection to identify the tricky ones.

  Photographing  them gives us a visual record as well.

Here are a few of his gorgeous photos......

the gang gang cockatoo

the yellow billed spoonbill

the crimson rosella

A few weeks before the fire, Bill built a birdhouse........not just a little four sided structure but a Taj Mahal bird house! We had a celebration of it's placement in the rose garden just a few days before the fire. One of our great joys when we returned, was to find that it was still proudly standing in it's rightful position.
A vision splendid!

Can't say that any of us have actually seen a bird visit there yet but .............. they don't know what they're missing!
We were also happy to see Bill's first birdhouse construction still standing out the front. It too, had been surrounded by black but  remained intact.

 Bill has put new lucerne around the base now to nurture a special rose that we planted there  to climb up and around the pole. It is called Cherokee rose.

Strangely, the one bird that we have never seen or heard here is the kookaburra....who would've thought!