After a walk in the Zoo

After a walk in the Zoo I wanted to sit down for a rest in our little towns park .

 And there was this welcome committee.

 We are looking for some crumbs, do you have any, mate?

 Yes, in fact I have some left from the pizza that I thought you would like.

 And us, what about us? Some mate.
And then, I was almost alone

Look at this little one. Haven't seen him before.

Galahs - 2009

Sky Watch no 23

The sky is being watched
 



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Sky Watch no 22 – View of Flinders Ranges

This is yesterdays sky shot from The Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden  in Port Augusta.

And here is another picture from my series of my little friends in Kanyaka Creek. (Blogger made this an update on Sky Watch no 21)


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My World no 19 – The Chicken at the Wirrabara Market

Every third Sunday in the month there is a Farmers  market in Wirrabara. We passed Wirrabara on our way to Seven Hills last Sunday, but now we want to buy the monthly supplies of bio-dynamic products from the Farmers around Wirrabara. A lot of pictures were taken, Whiskie chose a few and there were a  photo not taken, but c’est la vie. I’m fortunate, I saw it and it made my day.
 
 The Free range Chicken at the Wirrabara Market

Someone wanted to buy a chicken

This little one here

No way this little chicken wanted leaving with some strangers.

The Chuck was running as fast as she could

Last turn around And then, the picture not taken. I had a fresh battery pack in my hand and saw a beautiful takeoff from the market place over the roof were the coffee was served and over to the main street in Wirrabara she disappeared.

I went out on the street looking for the adventures chicken, but she was not seen Not by my little friend here, anyway.

After a while I was checking a certificate the farmer had hung up

Truly eggs laid by free range chickens as everyone could see

If the farmer didn’t bring her back home, she is probably still sitting there?

 P.S. At the next market we were told that the farmer went back the same evening and brought her back home.....
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And if you like animals, you can go to Pet Pride
 

My World no 17 - Port Augusta

40 min north of Port Germein is Port Augusta.
Not a big town, but definitly an important one in this great area. Here is the main powerplant  in this area west of the Flinders Ranges.  A train with 3 locomotives, 170 wagons, and around 3 km long, is coming in daily from the cole fields in Leigh Creek for the energy production. In this area there is not one windmill in sight as there is in the area north of Port Wakefield.
Here is a peaceful view of the new and the old power plant in Port Augusta.

Fra June - Port Germein

Just beside the Wharflands in Port Augusta the birds have their own little paradise.

Fra June - Port Germein

And the Galahs, I suddenly saw one,

Fra June - Port Germein

among a lot of others  dining peacefully at the Wharfs 

Fra June - Port Germein

The windmills at Clements Gap near Redhill and Snowtown

Fra June - Port Germein

Fra June - Port Germein

This was my little contribution from my world to you this week, don’t miss out on the rest of the world here!

My World no 13

It's a lot of things happening, so I'll just show you a group of Australian White Ibis taking of from a patch of "soak" land and the Railway station in Port Germein.

Fra June - Port Germein

Fra June - Port Germein

Here is The Ghan, that has just been in the media all over the world. This pictures are taken by my sister in law, Denise, in 2004. That was the very first time The Gahn could drive all the way up to Darwin from Adelaide and not just to Alice Springs. Of course there was a lot of people from town watching while the train was waiting on the side line at Port Germein station.

Fra Australia - Port Germein

Fra Australia - Port Germein

And then, today, we visited the train station to see the place.

Fra June - Port Germein

This was my little contribution from my world to you this week, don’t miss out on the rest of the world here!

Easter in La Pène 12. April 2009

Thought this would be of interest, it is so easy to forget that nature is providing us with everything we need:    Easter eggs dyed naturally
A little soundtrack of our Barn Swallows from: Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Sound & Video 
Our little colony of Barn Swallows, Les Hirondelles, is suddenly sitting in one of the parasoll trees on the terrace. Over the years now we have noticed that each of them has a different pattern of white or black spots. (I just love to watch and listen to birds, I don’t now so much about them.)

and of course, here is the view today :)

I like, and all the guests over the years like to watch the swallows and the nests. Either daddy is sitting on the shelf and getting food for his beloved, or he is on the eggs and mom is on the shelf and catching the food. When the kids come, they fly back and forth all day.  Here daddy is on the shelf. That is easy to see since he has no black spots on the breast.