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!