Hi Zero2a$mill - you know you've got the most difficult 'nic' to remember how to type??
I live in the Hills area, but go down South maybe 3 times per year, have lived there. I am usually in a hurry to get there quickly, same on the way back, but have vowed to perhaps one day book a room in Mandurah and get to know the area, as I have been recommended to move into that area. I have been to a few performance in that wonderful theater in Mandurah.
Pelicans are most majestic in flight, I think - have lived near a swamp down south and we saw many birds (and snakes and rats etc. well we saw them 'fleeing', only once confronted by a large black glittering snake, thick neck, head raised - - - and I ran as fast as I could - - - I knew a strike was imminent, but also had time to marvel a the beauty of the creature; but usually you only saw them move away). I am still not good at identifying birds, despite owning binoculars . . . . always too late and other things to do. Used to love the sound of the Currawong over in N.S.W. - we - then a whole family - used to love to go to the Blue Mountains, but Sydney's gardens and parks are a great hangout for them as well. Here the best singers are the magpies - and maybe the butcher birds, unless it is a case of mistaken identity.
At certain times of the year I find the blue wren on my lawn - a bird that never moved as far north as Perth, I am told, but is fairly common from about Dunsborough onto Albany. ... and I have the odd Robin visiting favouring a wrought iron grille I have in front of my dining area, pecking away at insects.
In my old house which was way over West - I owned a wonderful B.&O. set and loved opening the large veranda doors from my loungeroom onto a terrace, and played some of the 'birdie' type music like 'Lark ascending' also some amazing 'Lark Hora' (Hungarian, Rumanian) and it would start up a chorus of birds outside - probably competitive, but lovely to hear.
Cheers
Taurisk
