The Tour Down Under is only 3 months away so I'm stepping up my training which gives me an opportunity to see what birds are alive & flying on the Strathalbyn Plains. In my travels today I heard or saw spiny-cheeked honeyeaters at Woodchester & near Milang, white-browed babblers in roadside native vegetation near Milang & a brown goshawk near Woodchester cemetery. Then there were the usual suspects along the way such as a grey fantail & yellow-rumped thornbills, the latter with young.
All in all, not a bad day, especially since I didn't fall off.
Nice work, Woko.
I have tried a couple of times to incorporate bike riding and bird watching, or even just seed collecting and bird watching, but they always seem to have such competing demands that it never works for me.
Cheers
Tim
Brisbane
LOL Woko, did you take the camera? How is the practice of posting photos going? When I wasn't brave enough to do it, I e-mailed mine to some very nice friends on the forum(birdie or Owen) , they posted them for me. Didn't you say your wife .....? Give it a go man, if I can do it, so can you!!! M-L
M-L
I know, I know, Araminta. I must just do it. Not long now. Yes I can. And Ms Woko has offered to help if needed so there's no excuse.
With the Tour Down Under nigh, I took another ride down to Lake Alexandrina & Clayton today.
It was nice to see 43 Cape Barren geese still around, feeding in a lush, obviously irrigated paddock. As well, an obviously unirrigated paddock harboured about 40 straw-necked ibis which I haven't seen in this sort of environment for many years. Then there were 3 swamp harriers floating over the reeds & a wary Australian kestrel atop a fence post as I rode by.
In what looked like an abandoned farmyard was a flock of about 12 black-tailed native hens, apparent replacements for the introduced kind. Singing honeyeaters were plentiful & a yellow thornbill made its presence heard.
All this bird watching & I'm buggered. The cycling had nothing to do with it.
Luv ya, Woko! Keep it coming, you brighten my day. You realise we will all be watching for you in the tour down under?
Meave
At my pace, Meave, there'll be plenty of opportunity for a good, long look although you mightn't like what you see.