Favourite Photos of the Past 10 Years - Episode 7 'Beautiful Birdies'

Above:- 'A Robin Red Breast'

The Children's Garden

Osbourne House

Isle of Wright, U.K.

January 2018

 Kim's favourite bird  photo of the past 10 years and possible one of my favourite ever photos.

So here we are in the Children's garden  at Osbourne House. Prince Albert designed this garden and had a little swiss chalet installed for the royal children to learn to garden and learn (somewhat) normal domestic stuff.

As we visited on a cold early January day, there were very few visitors, and this little bird just popped onto a twig next to us to check us out.  I guess they are used to people picnicking and alike.

Snapped a couple of quick pics, it posed!

Unlike many birds, both the female and the male have the red breast. They are also very territorial, so it might have been telling us off!

 

Above:- 'A pelican, closer to home'

Armidale NSW

October 2018

Photo from the back deck at home

Above:- 'Pelican Ballet'

Rockhampton

Far North Queensland

September 2018

Above:- ' More Pelican Ballet'

Rockhampton

Far North Queensland

September 2018

Above:- 'More Pelicans'

Laurieton NSW

September 2018

Above:- 'Even More Pelicans'

Laurieton NSW

September 2018

 

Above:- 'Sydney Seagull'

Darling Harbour

March 2011

Above:- 'English Seagull'

Brighton U.K.

January 2018

Above:- 'Irish Baby Gull'

Ha'penny Bridge over the river Liffey

Dublin Ireland

September 2011

Above:- 'NZ Seagull'

Coromandel peninsula

New Zealand

September 2014

Above:-'Kookaburra'

Queen Mary's Falls

Queensland

November 2015

 

Above:-'Backyard Again'

Sulphur-crested Cockatoos

Armidale

November 2016

Above:- 'Baby Cockatoo in its nest'

Toowoomba Queensland

November 2014

Above:- 'Birds on a Wire'

Silly Galahs in the rain

Backyard - again

New Years Day 2017

Above:- 'Bathtime'

Galahs hanging upside down in the rain

Backyard - again

New Years Day 2017

 

Above:-'Bush Turkey'

Ellenbororgh Falls near Taree NSW

November 2016

Above:- 'Blue Faced Honeyeater'

Lightening Ridge

May 2014

Above:- 'Another Blue Faced Honeyeater'

Far North Queensland

September 2018

Above:- 'Noisy Miner' 

Queensland

November 2018

Above:- 'Wading birds (Moorhens)?'

Rockhampton

Far North Queensland

September 2018

Above:- 'Ibis!'

Far North Queensland

September 2018

 

Above:-'Elegant Swans on the Thames'

 

Eton U.K.

 

September 2011

Above:-'White Crane'

 

Hunter Valley Gardens NSW

 

October 2015

Above:-'Ducks in Capetown'

 

South Africa

 

November 2015

 Above:-'You shall not pass'

Trevor and Graham meet a Duck

Toowoomba Chinese Gardens, Queensland

November 2015

Above:- ' Repeat! Kim and a King Parrot'

Queen Mary's Falls, Queensland

November 2015 

Keep flapping - nearly there!

 

 

Above:- 'A Rookery' 

 

Rooks

Carlisle Castle, Isle of Wright, U.K

January 2018

 

Above:-'Hornbill'

Kruger Nation Park

South Africa

November 2015

Above:-'Vulture'

Kruger Nation Park

South Africa

November 2015

 

Above:-'Pigeon control methods'

 

Hawks at Trafalgar Square to  scare the pigeons away!

 

London

 

November 2011

 

Above:- 'Pigeons'

 

Dubronik, Croatia

 

October 2011

Above:- 'Pigeon having a Drink'

 

Bern, Switzerland

 

October 2011