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Rainbow Lorrikeets
These are a few of the early morning bunch that would descend on our caravans and look for food. They should eat seeds but will make do with bread, toast and vegemite, corn flakes, rice bubbles and Weetbix.
Mountain Rosella
These are marginally larger than the Eastern Rosella. They, and the Rainbow Lorrikeets, are East Coast birds and won't be found west of the Mountains. As you head north of here these rosellas head for higher altidudes. Around Sydney you can only find them in The Blue Mountains. Another of the Early Morning Bunch.
Merimbula
At low tide the lake is a maze of sand banks and channels.
The crowded beaches of Merimbula
The mouth of Twofold Bay, Eden, looking across the Tasman Sea to New Zealand.
Twofold Bay, Eden, looking to the old whaling station.
This is where the orca pod assisted the whalers in their hunting.
Some of the Eden fishing fleet
Pelicans on the sea wall.
Sunset over Pambula Beach
These are a few of the early morning bunch that would descend on our caravans and look for food. They should eat seeds but will make do with bread, toast and vegemite, corn flakes, rice bubbles and Weetbix.
Mountain Rosella
These are marginally larger than the Eastern Rosella. They, and the Rainbow Lorrikeets, are East Coast birds and won't be found west of the Mountains. As you head north of here these rosellas head for higher altidudes. Around Sydney you can only find them in The Blue Mountains. Another of the Early Morning Bunch.
Merimbula
At low tide the lake is a maze of sand banks and channels.
The crowded beaches of Merimbula
The mouth of Twofold Bay, Eden, looking across the Tasman Sea to New Zealand.
Twofold Bay, Eden, looking to the old whaling station.
This is where the orca pod assisted the whalers in their hunting.
Some of the Eden fishing fleet
Pelicans on the sea wall.
Sunset over Pambula Beach
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At the San Francisco Zoo once, they had an
exhibit where the public could go in with a
small cup of nectar and the lorrikeets would
land on you to sip it... Wonderful experience.
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Mind if I borrow the picture of the rainbow lorikeets as a userpic?
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Merimbula reminds me of beaches I've been to on the eastern
coast of the US. The water isn't as blue. Nice and *empty*.
Where did all the seagulls go?
"Hello pussycat! I'm called a pelican. My beak can hold more
than my bellican!" - B.C.
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Do they fight with Corvids (ravens ands Crows) over parking lot roadkill an d territory the way they do here? During the summer after hours at the DMV across the way you can see them standing or sometimes sitting in a big mob sometimes. I'm amazed no one tries to hit them with a car. They probablt don't want to be charged with molesting underage gulls:).
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Tell me more, pretty please?
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The men would jump in their boats and row. If Tom thought they were going too slow he'd grab a tow-rope and drag them to the site. After killing the whale, the whalers would withdraw and let the orcas feed on the tongue and lips of the carcass, then they's tow it back to the station.
When Old Tom died in 1930 the orca pod stopped helping the whalers and the annual catch dropped by 1/2. A year later the owner shut the station down. He'd always said the only reason the station was viable was due to the actions of the orca pod, and when they stopped helping he could see the writing on the wall.
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I do see other parrots: cockatoos, galahs (aka rose-breasted cockatoos), eastern rosellas (like the mountain rosella but with yellows and greens) red-rumped parrots, cockatiels, the occasional black cockatoo, king parrots, and lately because of the 12 month drought, wild budgeriegahs.
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I love being able to see the world through your eyes :)