galah

These two were getting a bit worried about being left by the adults but soon found them down the paddock digging up the horses sand menage, (they make quite a few holes in the sand which is covered in weeds and grass as we don't have horses any more). Hope you all get a smile!

Another SF......the Galah youngsters were trying to make friends with the Rainbow Lorikeets without much success. The action started at 9am and continued for most of the morning with the adults leaving the babies here, got heaps of photos! Hope you all enjoy and get a good laugh out of their...

Sorry I missed yesterday but still SF.........this morning I had a flock of Galahs and their youngsters arrive at the kitchen window, they were up to all sorts but thought this should give you all a smile, will try and post a couple more later on........hope you all enjoy. Stay safe!

The young female Galah was visiting for the first time and trying to make friends LOL .....the Galah is the off-spring of one of my regular pairs that come to my feeder every day, made for some great photos.............do hope gives you all a smile and keep safe! Apologies for no comments, have...

Hi all, my favorite female gave me a visit the other evening after the S/C Cockatoos had left, she sat on the fence outside the kitchen window and preened herself........the crest reminded me of paper balls hung on string for festive occasions..........she at least wasn't drenched this...

The Western Australia race taken with my little camcorder as always in our uncle's back garden in Safety Bay, WA....it beats a Dunnock!

while the galah's friends just stood there and watched. (I do think it is a pied currawong)

How neatly they positioned themselves to fit into that shadow from the tree! I'm sure they knew I wanted to take a picture of them!! We've got a Little Corella there with Galah. I think that may be the first time I got a picture with both of them together.

On another dead tree in the middle of the water were these two Galahs. Not sure what they were doing, but thinking now... could they be excavating a nest hole? Or would the hole be excavated through the bark? Or maybe they were just up to mischief LOL

One of a pair that were wondering about excavating a nesting hollow in the stump of an old palm.

We went out early the next morning (well before breakfast) and set off in the general direction we'd been the day before, but then turned off up a track into the forest, going to Sharp Point on the other side of the peninsula. This was where Alex and June did their patch work at one time. On...

Galahs always have to get in on the act, don't they. This on looks like he's checking me out to see what I'm up to LOL

A Galah had also arrived and sat in the tree for a few moments, seemingly checking out the activity at the water trough before deciding whether to join in or not.

This is what it looks like in avian terms. Not doing too badly at it I guess. Red-rumped Parrot and a couple of Galahs. I took this picture at Rawnsley at the end of October, when we'd not even heard of this term LOL.

Over breakfast we discussed our move for the morning. Peter had heard there was a water hole at the Rawnsley Camp a couple of km up the track, so off we set. Gosh it was hot going with no shade at all. We hadn't got too far when these two Galahs flew over.

.... he didn't completely raise his crest or it would have gone out of the frame!! He landed on the fence to overlook proceedings in the garden. Although I'd already seen plenty of these on my travels, this was the first to show his face at Hans' garden.

.... but aren't they pretty!! After having had our cuppie at Hinterland, we then set off for a drive around the northern suburbs of Gold Coast, mostly around the Bonogin. At one point we tried a walk into a forest, but it was extremely hot that day and after a short distance realised we...

We dropped down out of the forest to rather more agricultural land and paused for a bit at the side of the road as we saw some bird activity. My only decent shot there though was from a Galah that settled on a tree.

This didn't happen too often, to see three species together. Galah, Rainbow Lorikeet and Sulphur-crested Cockatoos!!

Making our way back towards the Homestead for lunch we came across three Galahs in a tree, a male and female but there's another partnerless one there in the background

Galahs are found pretty much throughout Australia (at least the parts I visited!). This is a female with the reddish eye and she was checking to see if there was room for her to land on the fallen tree in the water.

A flock of Galahs flew in, most settling in the tree, then some started to drop down onto the dead branch in the water. There's 5 there, you can just see one drinking on the far right.

There was now a Galah in a dead tree on the dam, seems to be talking to himself! The light was beginning to go now, as you can see. So it was time to return to Cunnamulla, my base for the next two nights. Hans and Judy had accommodation at Bowra, but they were full for my first two days... I...