Notes to readers of this Blog


NOTES TO READERS OF THIS BLOG

Thank you for dropping by to check out my blog. You will see a lot of other Blogs about birds I follow down the left hand side. I strongly encourage you to check some of these out as well, they are entertaining and I love to see birds from all over the world, I hope you do too.
Cheers,
Richard

Wednesday 6 June 2012

Budgies, Budgies everywhere

I saw this flock of Budgerigars late last week while driving along the Buntine Highway at the Wave Hill Station turnoff. Wave Hill has a special significance in Australian History. Here is a link to a short piece that explains what happened:

 Wave Hill story.

I'd stopped at the turnoff to the Station because I couldn't help but notice the large flock zooming over the grasses, trees and road:
I estimated in the end that there were between 400 and 500 in total around the area. They were mainly split up into groups of up to 50 with a few larger groups. They looked spectacular in the afternoon light. The following is a series of photos from that afternoon:

It was actually hard to get a Budgerigar by itself in the photo

Budgies being leaves on a tree


"Incoming" budgies



"Drop-in" Budgie

 "Flocks"





On the way back past the same spot a few days later I took this shot of one of three flocks flying around of similar size. To see this many budgies all together is truly fantastic (and I still couldn't fit them all in the frame):

Happy Birding!

6 comments:

  1. Hi!
    What a lovely green bird.
    Greetings from Sweden
    /Ingemar

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    1. Hi Ingemar, appreciate your comments. They are lovely and green, and noisy too in these sized flocks. Richard

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  2. Vaya bando de Periquitos,buenas fotos.Saludo

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    1. Thank you Isidro, I really enjoyed the experience. Richard

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  3. Aquí en españa los tenemos pero en jaula.

    Tú tienes suerte de que son autóctones!


    Good photos

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    1. Thank you Miguel, we had them in cages when I was a kid, but we had a white one and a blue one, the green ones are more beautiful and I'm so lucky to see them in the wild. Appreciate your comments. Richard

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