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matilda Nov 1, 2006

This is my early morning garden. It is 6am this morning.  I just love my garden
Good morning all!!!!! :dance: 

I took these shots  through the window while taking shots of Anatole my swap bear by Sophie.

shantell Nov 1, 2006

Good Morning, Matilda.  I just love your garden too!!!   I love seeing all the wonderful birds you have flying to and fro.  Although I have wee little birds eating me out of house and home with birdseed they are rather blah compared to yours.

Thanks so much for always sharing them with us.

matilda Nov 1, 2006

Good morning Shantelle. No wee birdy is blah, but some can be NOISY. I have one insect eater who just loves his own reflection. I'll try and get a shot of him one morning.  It is 8.30am now and my garden is just ablaze with sun light. Not good for taking garden pics of lttle birds. 
Wendy

chris009av Nov 1, 2006

What a lovely morning to share with us.
I can just imagine the doves coooing away 

matilda Nov 1, 2006

Good morning Christine!!  The doves are subserviant to the parrots. Its rather fun watching the parrots shoo them away.

matilda Nov 1, 2006

I couldnt resist. One more shot. Different birds , same breed. these are three males. The way tell is by the red patch above the beak. The larger and darker the patch the older the male.  and the men folk totally dolt on their missus.  Its fun watching them court. 

Swan Valley Bears Nov 1, 2006

Good morning Wendy,

The birds in my garden  are wild turkeys. (I shouldn't call it garden because we haven't landscaped yet - it's a new home)  Hundreds, no maybe thousands of them.  They are everywhere.  They don't move from the middle of the street when you are driving.  They gobble, gobble in the wee hours of the morning just below our bedroom window.  They chase our poor doggies.  They run in flocks of 40 or more.

But here is a view from the back of our house that kind of makes up for our not-so-pretty birdlife:

Dilu Nov 1, 2006

Love the parrots-its hard to remember that in some places in the world they are all over the place....

I love your garden too, and since its been below freezing every night for the past week and all the flowers are gone and we are facing 6 months of rain here in Oregon, 7 months for the girls in north Oregon, I really really love your garden.

I would be quite content to perch there with the birds....I speak parrot....I can live on fruit and nuts.....I bet its warm....

sigh

golyhugs
dilu

matilda Nov 1, 2006

Patty I think mobs of wild turkeys would be fabulous!!!! annoying... but still fabulous. There will come aday where there will be no turkeys  
I just love that view!!!!! WOW OH WOW!!! (slight case of envy) How absolutely wonderful!!!!!
Now thats what I call a garden.  
I would love to see a pic of your turkey mobs.
Lulu  these parrots of mine look just like your gollies. Dark heads with lots of colour and character.
Everything is in flower over here in WA so I will go forth today and learn how to work my camera and take lots of pics in my town and its gardens. Hows that aye?  You wouldnt believe the Kangaroo paws. Just brilliant. Massed planted, bird attracting. It is just amazing in Western Australia. It's a beaut place to be.    GREAT PLACE FOR HOLIDAYS FOLKS ( big cheeky grin) we are really inneed of an aussie icon here.  :redface: 
Have a wonderful day folks!!!!!!! :hug: 

chrissibrinkley Nov 1, 2006

Oh my gosh, that's amazing.....to have parrots just sitting outside in the wild like that!!  I've got drabby brown squirrels out back.

:hug:
~Chrissi

matilda Nov 1, 2006

OOoo Chrissi that reminds me................ will be back in a tick........ :lol:
I saw this in Sundays paper and thinking of Kimberly and her wonderful Theodore MrNutt  I saved it.
Is'nt this squirrel wonderful?

thumperantiques Nov 1, 2006

Wendy,
     Squirrels are so cute - we found a baby red squirrel when our kids were in their early teens.  We fed him kitten formula we got from the vet, in a dolls bottle.  We kept him in a hamster cage until he was 6 weeks old and he loved green grapes and chocolate ice cream!  He would forage in my purse if he smelled food ie chocolate!  I hadmy dad build him a house in a big tall pine tree in the back yard.  He adjusted quickly and learned to eat the pine cones etc and forage for natural food and after a month, we took him to the forestry area and let him go.  He was too tame, and I was afraid our cats would get him.  I often wonder how he made out and if he dreamed of chocolate lLOL!

                                        hugs,

                                        Brenda

Michelle Helen Nov 1, 2006

Matilda: you lucky duck you....to have those wonderful birds in your back yard. That would be exciting to wake up to. 

Patty: holy cow, that is a view..... I think it would be neat to have wild turkeys. I had one in my back yard not too long ago and I was amazed at how big they are!! That big boy ran very fast too with a thump, thump, thump with his feet....

Now for squirrels....well, as common as they are (they can't help it), I place food out for them every winter. In fact I just started doing it so they don't go hungry....

Brenda: you are a good soul to save that baby squirrels life....I bet he is doing well....

Bear Hugs

Michele

doodlebears Celebration AmbassadorNov 1, 2006

Hiya Wendy, thanks for sharing your wonderful bird pictures. Here in the UK most of the birds are brown or black, not very exciting!

GREAT PLACE FOR HOLIDAYS FOLKS

Boy I wish! I would love to go to Australia.

Patty the view from the back of your house is amazing. How wonderful to have such an awesome sight great you each day. BUT...TURKEYS! My daughters neighbours have just one turkey and he drives her crazy he calls to another neighbours geese and between them the kick up one heck of a noise.

Thanks for sharing the pictures are great.

Hugs Jane.     

patsylakebears Nov 1, 2006

Matilda they are just fantastic photo's I love the parrots, we don't get those over here...

Pumpkin & Pickle Bears Nov 1, 2006

What beautiful pictures Wendy.....I LOVE Australian gardens. My favourite thing to do in Oz is go to the Dandenongs and watch the sulphur crested cockies flying from tree to tree.....and I LOVE to hear the Kookaburra's laughing!

matilda Nov 1, 2006

I love the Kookaburras as well Gemma! There is a group of them living in the old Gum trees in the park across the road.  Earlier this year I saw two of them perched on my neighbours roof. The sillohette they made was wonderful. Their beaks in the air laughing. I tried to take a pic but my other camera just wasnt up to it. Such a shame.
I did sally forth today folks and took some pics of Kangaroo paws  and while walking up to the beach front I passed some galahs and on the way back a corella had joined them. Yes my international friends.....right there on the footpath.  I was hoping to get a pic of the corrella mob on Mermorial park field. But they were not there.
Maybe because it is so warm and the days are longer.  I will just have to try again wont I?
I'll post pics tomorrow morning.
Brenda and Michelle you both have very kind hearts. We dont have squirrels here , we do have possums though   Patsy, up there in the blue mountains you must have a tonne of photos of the wild life. and I dont mean your neighbours wife swapping parties either.  :crackup:  :crackup:
I watch an awful lot of documentaries and one I saw not so long ago was about the different kinds of Owl in Britian. Has any one got an owl roosting in their garden?
I have loved sharing my morning with you all. I'm pleased you enjoyed it so much.
Wendy :dance:

beary_clairey Nov 1, 2006

Wow!!!

I wish I had birds like that flying around my back garden!!!

All we get are robins and blue tits.

And I could do with some of those views too!!!

I must come to Australia one day !!!

Hugs

Claire

Pumpkin & Pickle Bears Nov 1, 2006

Has any one got an owl roosting in their garden?

We back onto the forest so i hear the owls all the time. I used to do voluntary work at a falconry and I'd handle the owls every time I was there....they are AMAZING close-up.

beary_clairey Nov 1, 2006

I've handled a barn owl which are so beautiful and an european Eagle Owl, which are massive but have beautiful Amber eyes!!!

Both my hubby and I have also flown Harris hawks which was a great experience !!!

Hugs

Claire

Swan Valley Bears Nov 1, 2006

OK, my doggies and I went out on a turkey hunt this afternoon.  They are mostly out in the mornings but we were able to find a few. 

March is mating season and the Tom Turkeys go around all puffed up.  It's actually pretty cool.  I'll have to get pictures of them next year.

Here's Bear, he's on the turkey watch for me.

And, here are the turkeys:

They kind of blend in with the landscape so I pointed them out to you.

matilda Nov 1, 2006

Model railways and giant turkeys and beautiful vistas over a River valley. WOW!!! and all I have are some silly green parrots   Thankyou Toby and Patty for the pics.
Its one way to get to know you better.  :hug: 
I just loved bear Patty.
Toby, I dated a guy whos father was a keen train enthusiast. He had punched holes in all the rooms of his house just to have more train track.   
I believe being a bear enthusiastic is less eccentric   :lol
Wendy

BearBottoms Nov 2, 2006

Oh my goodness!! ALL of these pics are just GORGEOUS and WONDERFUL to look at!  I have enjoyed looking at all the pics; thanks to all of you for posting them! The parrots, the view over the lake, the model train back yard, the squirrel is CUTE!! hee hee  I LOVED these pics!  Since I have nothing to speak of in my yard but a lone birdfeeder and some sparrows and chickadees until we landscape, I am enjoying everyone else's pics!

BTW Patty, my husband would just DIE if he saw all those turkeys just waltzing around!  He's of the hunting persuasion.

Kimberly W.

Jodi Falk Nov 2, 2006

You guys are to much FUN !!!! Love the trains, your hubby must be so much fun.....I am jealous !But very happy for you

Stellajella Nov 7, 2006

Wendy, beautiful!!! BEAUTIFUL!!!!

Toby, smashing, my mom would kill for a train like yours!!

Gaby