Imagine the scene: seriously quiet, desert country, muted browns and greys, soft light as the sun is just rising and then a colourful parrot family turns up to drink at the dam.
The male Red-rumped Parrot is fluffing his feathers beautifully, including his red rump, while the female drinks. The two birds in the background are also males. I was beneath my fabric hide on the bank of the dam. I’d carefully positioned myself away from the tracks showing where the kangaroos made their way to water.
I was at the wonderful Snape Reserve in the Wimmera, just out of Dimboola. What a magnificent place. I was blissfully lucky to visit the reserve with a group of friends from Knox Photographic Society, and that luck was increased many times when I met the wonderful Sharyn who is president of the management committee.
I saw dozens of species at the reserve from tiny Mistletoebirds to comically magnificent Emus and I’m feeling quite desperate to get back. I have more photographs to share from this visit but it has been a week of very mixed emotions and as it is past midnight in this part of the world I must head to sleep.
Happy birding, Kim
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