Australian Trip #21
Today in Sunday Stills Terri from Second wind leisure challenged us to feed the birds. I whined to Janis about never having any beautiful bird pictures. But after searching in my files for birds, up came some files tagged “bird.” Tags are so cool.
Four years and a month ago Glen and Carol took me to the Bunya Mountains to see amazing Australian wild life. Feeding time for these colorful time was exact and we got there in time to watch the birds fly from the trees and land near the food bowls, which you could purchase.
It did not bother me at all that we had not purchased a bowl of food. The beauties had plenty.
Not ever feeder was equally excited about having the birds in such close proximity. Some of them had to be coaxed and coached by their adult supervisors to get them to step up to the plate.
After a little demonstration, feeding time got calmer. The people, not the birds. The birds were as excited as ever, though you can’t tell by their expressions.
“These colorful parrots from Australia are in the genus Platycercus. Platycercus means “broad-tailed” or “flat-tailed”, reflecting a feature common to the rosellas and other members of the broad-tailed parrot tribe. Their diet is mainly seeds and fruit.”
Wikipedia
The rosella parrots did not mind picking their food off the ground. The thirty second rule applied here.
It took about a half hour for most of the food to disappear. I wonder if any of it germinates and produces its own food for the birds.
I hope you enjoyed this short walk down memory lane in the Bunya Mountains with Glen, Carol and me.
Wow, look at all the other brave souls that got close enough to shoot bird pictures. (or had a long lens). This is my reading material for tomorrow. Join me, would you?
- https://andanyways.com/2021/02/21/sundaystills-hello-maggie/
- https://catsandtrailsandgardentales.com/2021/02/21/my-favorite-little-backyard-birds/
- My favorite Little Backyard Birds – Cats and Trails and Garden Tales
- A Glimpse of Life from My Kitchen Window. – HorseAddict
- Monday Minstrel: How do birds survive the Polar Vortex? – HorseAddict
- https://www.denysewhelan.com.au/denyse-blogs/feed-the-birds-sundaystills-25-2021/
- https://artisticpension.blog/2021/02/21/birds-what-birds/
- Waiting is for the Birds – Equipoise Life
- Feeding the birds | Kamerapromenader
- Feed The Birds – Light Words
- https://retirementallychallenged.com/2021/02/21/sunday-stills-a-pandemonium-of-parrots/
- What do a Penguin and a Magpie have in common? #SundayStills – Deb’s World
- https://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/2021/02/21/lens-artists-challenge-136-s-for-strand-feeding-and-scavengers/
- Birds of a feather flock together and that goes for humans too
- https://theunretired.life/2021/02/21/birdwatching-in-covid-19/
- http://www.jtouchofstyle.com
- Feed the birds | Graham’s Island
- https://picture-this.org/2021/02/21/sundaystills-birds-feeding-in-the-garden-naturephotography-gardenbirds/
- #SundayStills ~ Birds Feeding in the Garden #naturePhotography #GardenBirds – Picture This ~ My Photography
- https://troyerslovinglife.blogspot.com/2021/02/taking-in-life-around_21.html
- https://oldbloggler.blogspot.com/2021/02/sundaystills-feed-birds.html
- https://natalietheexplorer.home.blog/2021/02/19/lakeside-birdwatching/Lakeside Birdwatching – Natalie the Explorerhttps://andanyways.com/2021/02/21/sundaystills-hello-maggie/
- https://catsandtrailsandgardentales.com/2021/02/21/my-favorite-little-backyard-birds/
- My favorite Little Backyard Birds – Cats and Trails and Garden Tales
- A Glimpse of Life from My Kitchen Window. – HorseAddict
- Monday Minstrel: How do birds survive the Polar Vortex? – HorseAddict
- https://www.denysewhelan.com.au/denyse-blogs/feed-the-birds-sundaystills-25-2021/
- https://artisticpension.blog/2021/02/21/birds-what-birds/
- Waiting is for the Birds – Equipoise Life
- Feeding the birds | Kamerapromenader
- Feed The Birds – Light Words
- https://retirementallychallenged.com/2021/02/21/sunday-stills-a-pandemonium-of-parrots/
- What do a Penguin and a Magpie have in common? #SundayStills – Deb’s World
- https://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/2021/02/21/lens-artists-challenge-136-s-for-strand-feeding-and-scavengers/
- Birds of a feather flock together and that goes for humans too
- https://theunretired.life/2021/02/21/birdwatching-in-covid-19/
- http://www.jtouchofstyle.com
- Feed the birds | Graham’s Island
- https://picture-this.org/2021/02/21/sundaystills-birds-feeding-in-the-garden-naturephotography-gardenbirds/
- #SundayStills ~ Birds Feeding in the Garden #naturePhotography #GardenBirds – Picture This ~ My Photography
- https://troyerslovinglife.blogspot.com/2021/02/taking-in-life-around_21.html
- https://oldbloggler.blogspot.com/2021/02/sundaystills-feed-birds.html
- Lakeside Birdwatching – Natalie the Explorer
- Johnny is a Bird-Dog – Retirement Reflections
I missed these wonderful entries until 2-28.
- Now At Home
- Cee’s Photo Challenges
- Pictures Without Film
- Our Eyes Open
- Stevie Turner
- 365days Blog
- Bend Branches
- Easin’ Along
- Idaho Bluebird
- Light Write Life
- Mazee Puran
- hold-fast-to-dreams.jpg (1920×1440) (wordpress.com)
- The Day After
- The World is a Book
- Travel with Me
- Women Living Well After 50
- Woolley Muses
Have a great week. See you Tuesday for the Summary of Story Chat.
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
46 responses to “#Sunday Stills: Feeding Birds in Australia”
What an amazing outing! I dream of going to Australia to see their birds. I’m so glad tags are working for you! You sure put together a lot of links! You really are the queen of data gathering! Wonderful photos and great description. I felt like I was there. It also reminded me that I could have added the Lorikeets from the zoo down in Tampa when I was able to feed them. Oh well, another time, another challenge. Plus I have a photo of that on my Bird Weekly page. 🙂
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As I’ve tagged my pictures, I’ve found quite a few birds. So now, I think I will have a few to enter in your challenge, if they fit the bill, so to speak. 🙂
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That would be so awesome! Some weeks are harder than others, but I look forward to seeing your posts anytime it works out for you. 🙂
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Yay! 🙂
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🙂
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Lovely captures Marsha and thanks for the link. Hope you find time to visit the post.
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Definitely, I visited them all last night until about 1:30 in the morning. I hope I wrote you a comment. 🙂 🙂
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Fabulous capture of the parrots here Marsha. I love the blogging community for being so supportive of each other and by sharing all the links shows your caring nature. Many thanks.
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I learned that from Donna. I like that, too. Besides it is easier to visit everyone’s blog that way.
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Beautiful Captures Marsha! I love the little Rosella!!! such vivid colors! ❤️
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Aren’t they amazing. We don’t have anything like that here. 🙂
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They are so pretty!!!💖
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I’ll pass on the compliment, LOL. I’m sure they spend a lot of time preening and probably some time in the featherdresser. The one female looks like her feathers are starting to gray. Probably couldn’t go in because of COVID.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣 Some pluck their feather out so at least that hasn’t happened! 💖
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Is that akin to when we get so frustrated that we pull our hair out?
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Lol!!!!
It has to be.. what else would it be? !!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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such colorful birds!
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They were a joy!
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Hi, Marsha – Thank you for taking us on this trip down memory lane with you. I love parrots so I was all in!
Thank you also for compiling the #SundayStills #FeedtheBirds posts. That is quite an impressive list. I know what I’ll be doing this evening!
Thank you for including my link as well. I greatly appreciate this.
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I got the idea from you Donna. I love that you did that. It makes it so easy to visit when they are listed like that. I didn’t get my visits made, but tomorrow I will. 🙂
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What gorgeous colors! Funny, as much as I love birds in the wild, I’ve don’t feel comfortable having them sit on my head or arms. I think my hesitation harkens back to when I had a boyfriend who had love birds. Well, they LOVED him, but me? Not so much. I swear they’d peck my eyes out if they could have (OK, maybe I’m exaggerating). Anyway, I enjoyed seeing the colorful parrots in your post from afar 🙂
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That’s exactly how I feel, Janis. I don’t remember who had them as pets, but I remember one landing on me. and it scared me. They tried to get me to hold it. That was the last thing I wanted to do. 🙂
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Beautiful parrots, Marsha, you captured them deftly with your lens! It is fun to feed the birds like that. In San Diego’s Balboa park, there are street vendors who have tame birds you can feed and let perch on your hand. Thanks for all those links, but you’ll never catch up, LOL! 5 more just linked, yay!
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I’m not even started. I wrote the summary for Story Chat today, and the organizing photos post for Friday. Tomorrow I will write the WQWWC post and visit some of the posts. I’m just running out of time. How do you do it?
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I do one post a week, for one thing. It’s plenty for me and has been, probably because I work part-time. My new job is in training mode…I forgot how exhausting learning can be, LOL! You’re a ball of energy, Marsha!
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Vince thinks I’m obsessed! I might be. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with #WQWWC. It’s not taking off. How long do you think I should give it? Story Chat is only 2 posts per month, so not hard to handle, but I’m always pushing it. I’m not consistent with my writing challenge friends, and try to do SS, LAPC and Cee’s challenges, but I don’t get to them all, obviously. I try to do Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday but I’m not good at that either. So much for energy. I’m enjoying visiting your participants. I got through 20 of them today! Yikes How do you do it? And you work! LOL
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Maybe another month on WQW. When I have posted about fitness I get decent views, especially if related to my book (still editing). I’ve tried sharing book reviews and I just get few views. Bloggers aren’t expecting that from me I guess. For work I’m spending about 10 hours a week so far. I can go to 17 a week and that will start soon. Almost the same as I put in teaching. You will figure it out 😁
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Thanks for your suggestions, Terri. I haven’t been doing any book reviews recently. They take a ton of time because I get interrupted or read slowly, not sure which. Then another day to write the post. It’s not worth the effort for me.
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Yeah, I’m fine to review on Amazon and Goodreads when I can.
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Very colourful birds, Marsha. Thank you for mentioning my link. Have a great week! #SundayStills
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You, too, Natalie. 🙂
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Oh those are beautiful, colorful birds indeed! Thanks for sharing! And thanks for linking to my favorite little backyard birds! 🙂
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You’re welcome. I’ll be by there soon. 🙂
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What a wonderful walk of a memorable time. Australian birds are unique – but then again, I only know through pictures like yours. 🙂 Someday I will get there.
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Someday you will. I went to see my blogging friends. The Eternal Traveler have traveled between here and there to see each other three times since we met in 2012. That has been one of the main benefits of blogging for me.
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King parrots and crimson rosellas – some of my favourites.
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Aren’t they gorgeous? I didn’t get too close, though!
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This looks like great fun! Although it reminds me of a trip we did when staying near Cairns, to a place that promised ‘Breakfast with the birds’. You got to eat breakfast surrounded by some beautiful birds who would come down and peck at scraps etc. I loved it, but my poor husband had sunburned shoulders from the previous day’s outing to the Great Barrier Reef and when a one-legged cockatoo landed on one shoulder, dug his remining claws in and refused to move, he was in agony 😦
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Oh Sarah, your poor husband. I bet he never did that again. There were a couple of places like that in Maui, HI. If you ever get to HI, go to Mama’s Fish House. There are no windows, and it’s like eating out on a patio. We sat right by the “window” the first time there, but fortunately were not accosted! Your husband’s experience would be my worst nightmare! 🙂
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He’s never forgiven me – firstly for not spotting that he was getting burned (he hadn’t realised how quickly the lotion would wear off while he snorkelled as he doesn’t often go in the water), secondly for my inability to chase the bird away, and thirdly for taking photos and laughing!!
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Those parrots are gorgeous…the colours! So nice to be able to feed them close up. Thanks so much for all those links too, that must have taken a while!
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It did, but now I need to go read the ones I haven’t already seen. 🙂 there were 44, I think.
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Wow that is a big job to catalogue all the posts. Reading material for weeks. Is there an easy way to do it?
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I just went through the comments and copied and pasted the links. I haven’t visited all of them yet, but I will do that today. I noticed that Donna did that with Sunday Stills as well, and I thought it was practice I wanted to try for the challenges I love.
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