Just had a few weeks up on the station and thought some of you might like to see wild weiros budgies and cockies. Well the budgies didnt sit still long enough for pics and the sun was always in the wrong spot for colour pics of weiros but I tried!! Cockies werent hard as they filled the trees along the rivers and we had a flock of a few hundred every morning and arvo some to feed on the new seeding grasses. Zebra finches in every tree everywhere we went!!

Still a bit of water around although it has gone down quick, few creek crossings to negotiate

Weiros flying

At sunrise- weiros in tree

Rose Bourkes- didnt get many good pics of these

Corellas- a very small part of the flock- not very clear

Pink and greys- they are everywhere but thought someone may like to see a picture

Got lots of pics of these guys

Wild horses and donkeys running around too- these 2 were a young stallion and a mare getting to know each other!

Plenty more pics but this will do for now as they take too long to upload!!

 

Not sure what happened but the pics came out very grainy on the forum. sorry

Edited April 24, 200817 yr by the pie

I can't wait to move to the country, city life ain't for me...

Fantastic Pie Thanks for sharing.

Just confirming my suspicions, wiero is another name for tiels yeah?

Exellent photography, I enjoyed them all

beautiful photos

yep weiros are cockatiels.

The noise of the birds around the place was amazing, its been quite some time since they have had a decent rain up there so the birds were loving all the fresh green seed everywhere, up and down the rivers they lined the gumtrees checking out hollows.

Not sure why the pics came out so fuzzy though- they didnt like the resizing on photobucket I guess!!

Thanks for sharing your pictures with us, yes your right resizing pics always looses some of the sharpness, but guess we have to put up with that.

 

Yes they call them Weiros in the west. I think that’s the Aboriginals name for them, also called Cockatiels & Quarrions.

wow, neat pictures.

thanks for sharing them, l would love to see more pics please

wow they are great photos!!! love to sunset and the water

 

Seeing the tiels in the tree made my heart skip a beat. I have never seen them wild and it reminds me of when someone opened my aviary as a joke and all my tiels were all sitting high in my tree - i got 2 back, but the others got away

Great pictures Pie!! Thanks for sharing!

make the spare bed Pie, because i'm moving in!!!! you live in your own nature reserve, i like it!!!!!

I'd be in my element there

Edited April 25, 200817 yr by *libby*

There's a picture missing Pie....where's the "baby bump" picture ?

They are great pictures... isn't Australia a great country such beautiful landscapes.... Even the side of an old tin shed is pretty in the picture. Its pictures like this that make me realise life is to short to not enjoy it.

Love the Bourke picture! Looks like a female normal or 'wild' type Bourke. Far better looking than the mutations I reckon!