Bird Life at Canina Homestead

The bird life in our back yard is amazing.

Here are the birds we get to see pretty much every day...

1. Kookaburra

2. Peaceful Doves

3. Bar-shouldered Dove

4. White-Headed Pigeons

5. Crested Pigeon 

6. Galah

7. Rainbow Lorikeets 

8. Pale-Headed Rosella

9. King Parrot

10. Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo

11. Little Corella

12. White-Winged Choughs 

13. Crow

14. Currawong

15. Spangled Drongo

16. Australian Magpie

17. Peewee (Magpie-Lark)

18. Butcherbird

19. Willie Wagtail

20. Welcome Swallows

21. Australian Wood Ducks

22. Noisy Miner

23. Indian Myna

24. Blue-Faced Honeyeater

25. Scarlet Honeyeater

26. Cattle Egret

27. Masked Lapwing (Plover)

28. Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

29. Little Wattlebird

30. Little Friarbird

31. Noisy Friarbird

32. Grey Shrike Thrush

33. Straw Necked Ibis

34. Australian White Ibis

35. Chestnut-breasted Mannikins

36. Double-Barred Finch

37. Green Figbird

September Holidays ~ From the Coast to the Farm

I took the kids to see their cousins in the second week of the school holidays. We left Monday morning to spend two nights with Michelle. Then went to the farm for one night.

Monday - The kids found a Willy Wagtail's nest near the pool with three babies in it. They went for a swim. Then Jacob, Rita-Lily and Isaac walked to the playground while Michelle, Tiara, Louella, Ava & I walked to the top of the hill to see the view. Then we all walked back down to the playground.

Tuesday - Jacob and Isaac went to the skate park on scooters. We went a little later to see how they were doing. Isaac was having a great time until a magpie swooped him! He fell on the concrete and grazed his elbow and knee.

Wednesday - We drove to the farm mid morning. Then Ava and Jack had a ride on the quad bike with Grandarrell down to shift the irrigator. Isaac rode it all by himself when they got back. In the late afternoon, after it had cooled down a bit, Greg drove Trish, Isaac, Ava, Jack (Jewel was in Japan) and me down to the river in their 4-wheel drive. Greg did some fishing and the kids had a swim. Isaac wasn't very happy about not being able to wash his muddy feet until we got back to the house.

Thursday - Before we left around lunch time, I walked around the farm taking photos for the photo a day group. On Wednesday and Thursday I got the whole alphabet in farm photos.