Every Year...

Every year a pair of red capped parrots appear more frequently when two particular grevillea plants are in flower. They are incredibly shy birds, so I view them from inside the cottage.

These stunning birds are only found in the extreme south west of Australia, so they are very precious.

Three of their favourite trees to forage in are outside my bedroom window, so if I am lingering in bed on the weekend, I get a bird's-eye view of very intimate moments.

There's also a variety of birdbaths and water bowls in the front garden as well which adds a playfulness to observing these private moments. Because if one has ever sat to watch birds bathing, you can't help but smile. Their joyfulness is contagious. 

 Watching birds who live and visit my garden is food for my soul. 

Saying I am blessed is an understatement. 

It's not lost on me that I don't have to leave my garden to be swallowed by the magical realm of mother nature.

This year I only saw them a couple of times, and only managed a few good photos. 

They keep creeping through the bushes as they eat, which makes photographing them incredibly difficult.

Destruction of habitat is causing an issue for the species'.

I actually despair at the annihilation of bushland that is constantly happening. 

It baffles my mind how this keeps being done and of how many creatures are murdered in the process.

Which is why I do my very small, but important part in providing a safe haven for wildlife in my garden...

 

Recently I Visited...

Recently I visited the Ellenbrook library for the first time and was surprised see three huge works of art displayed in the entrance.

Being a lover of nature, only one piece caught my full attention.

The butterfly one.

There is so much going on in this piece I could have spent hours gazing at it.

Being extremely high though, meant it was virtually impossible to make out the top half of the piece. 

As it was I enjoyed spotting the birds, insects and fairies virtually hidden from view. 

Of course unless you did what I did, and took time for a closer inspection of this glorious piece...

 

Mysterious Happenings..

Mysterious happenings have made things rather intriguing over the past few weeks. Firstly, I was woken in the early hours to running water. 

As I staggered about in the dark wondering what was going on, I realised that the culprit was the kitchen tap.

Knowing full well that this was in a word, impossible, because these taps are not easy to turn on.

I stood for a moment, before turning the cold tap off and shaking my head and mumbling as I headed back to bed.

The next day I told my son what had happened. He said that he would try the taps for himself the next time he visited, as he was certain he could solve the mystery. 

A couple of days later, he did just that. And was as surprised as me as to how it could have happened. Stating it didn't make any sense to him at all.

He said, you obviously have a spooky visitor.

That was weird enough, but the next thing that happened was even more bewildering.

This time I wasn't asleep but in my bedroom early evening.

Suddenly there was a really loud sound of something being rattled against the wall with some force, and then the sound of something falling.

Going into the other room, I find the above mirror off the wall laying on a cushion.

The problem with this is rather intriguing because this mirror is lifted and slotted into place with a sturdy wall fitting.

It's not hung by a piece of wire, which in theory could have broken.

There's absolutely no way it could have lifted itself off the wall. 

I still can't figure out what happened but the mirror incident really was strange, especially with it shaking rather violently before it came off the wall.

So I guess I am going have to add both to my list of unexplained moments I have had during my life, it was about a year ago I woke one morning to find a single white feather next to my bed.

No one really understands the workings of the wonderful universe we are apart of.

There's an abundance of theories. Yet, that's all they are, theories.

No one alive can prove anything, it's only ever someone's point of view.

So, do I have spiritual visitors?

Ghostly or not I find that rather exciting.

Or did both things happen by some other unexplainable phenomenon?

I guess I will never truly know...

 

Back In August...

Back in August I took myself on another outing to York with the sole intension of checking out the riverside trail. The Avon River was extremely low, and unfortunately on the side of the river I chose to walk, the river was mostly out of view. 

I did see a rather regal egret resting on a branch overhanging the water. Plus, there were quite a few ringneck parrots nesting in the trees. Like most parrots and cockatoos, they nest in hollows found in dead and living trees. When breeding season begins, it's not unusual to see different species battling over hollows. 

They usually lay between 4 to 6 eggs, which are incubated for 20 days. Chicks fledge around 30 days.

I also saw a family of ducks towards the end of my meander. I did think it was somewhat early for ducklings. But with the warm winter we had, it's not surprising nature is somewhat out of sync.

 

There were also a few hakeas flowering, the stunning reddish hued blooms really are extraordinary. Surprisingly, there wasn't much else in flower...