Day 255...

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.” - Victor Hugo

Day 215.... angry birds

The Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus) is a species of Australasian parrot found in Australia, eastern Indonesia (Maluku and Western New Guinea), Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. In Australia, it is common along the eastern seaboard, from Queensland to South Australia and northwest Tasmania

When I started this project I made a list of things that I would like to capture, of course that list keeps growing, and a Rainbow Lorikeet was one of the things on the list    

Day 182... eating out

"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest."
J. G. Holland

Walking along on a warm Winter's day (it was 22 degrees today which for July in Adelaide is warm) I saw this little guy enjoying his lunch.

Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala) enjoying some Red Hot Poker (Kniphofia praecox)   

Day 175... Newtown

Newtown, a suburb of Sydney's inner west is located approximately four kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

King Street is the main street of Newtown and centre of commercial and entertainment activity. The street follows the spine of a long ridge that rises up near Sydney University and extends to the south, becoming the Princes Highway at its southern end

Also a cool place to wander around with a camera....

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
Fantasia Barrino

 

Day 149...

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Albert Camus

 

Today I thought I would go capture the beauty of a Autumn landscape,

so I travelled to the Adelaide Botanical Gardens

but even the best laid plans don't go to plan...

 

I can't help to get in close and capture the detail... I did get a landscape,

a panoramic landscape...

 

as I was leaving this guy landed on the ground right in front of me and of course I had to capture him...

Day 27... going to the zoo

Today I headed into the Adelaide Zoo with my nieces and nephews.... the home of Wang-Wang and Funi, the only Giant Pandas in the Southern Hemisphere



The Pandas are not the only drawcards, Adelaide Zoo is a beautiful zoo that displays the animals in a natural habitat and it feels you can very close to them... including this new family

A close up of the feathers of the flamingo