After biding farewell to the morning Red-winged Parrots at the caravan park, we packed up Matilda and hit the highway.
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| Red-winged gorgeousness |
We topped off the petrol tank in town (no LPG auto-gas in Cunnamulla… this is proving to be an issue) and headed east. Bear in mind that the day before yesterday, Lynn, Robert and I drove over 100 kilometers around the area looking for Australian Bustards and never saw a one.
I need to set my trip odometer every time I fill up because Matilda’s fuel gauge is old and sometimes forgets what she is doing. It drops down to Empty when it is still almost full, so I can't really count on it. Therefore I knew that we were exactly 5 kilometers outside of town when I yelled, BUSTARD! And there was a beautiful, magnificent, Australian Bustard standing on the road. Actually, there were four total. I stopped. We looked. We got another lifer. I got a few photos and didn’t get run over on the highway. So much for which to be grateful!
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| Australian Bustard, Ardeotis australis Magnificent... |
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| Australian Bustard, Ardeotis australis |
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| Australian Bustard, Ardeotis australis |
After taking care of a few things, we are now plugged in at a small, but nice caravan park in St. George, QLD. While running errands, we saw Blue-faced Honeyeaters on a nest in front of the hospital. They are such cool and beautiful birds. I am grateful for them indeed. Now for a quiet night of editing (and much deleting) of photos, or something. As you can imagine, right now I am writing. I had not planned on doing another blog so soon, but the Bustards were magnificent and I was really grateful. So here you go! Stay tuned…
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| Blue-faced Honeyeater and nest. |
Birds. Peace. Love. Earth. Laughter. Music.