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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

Comments

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

Those birds are spectacular! Man, we got nothin' in North America to match those colors...well, not around here, anyhow.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I don't see them around here, either. They're coastal birds and I'm a bit inland.

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.