Australian Pelican; Black-winged Stilt*; Silver Gull
I’m a bit late for Lisa’s Bird Weekly with the theme of “Two or more bird species in one photograph“, but in my defence I only took this photo yesterday! I’m hoping I can sneak in. 😉
You may notice that the birds are predominantly white.
And you may be thinking, “Hold on, the feature photo has only two species!” Ah, but the pelican is the large, wavering reflection between the other two.
*I’ve gone for “Black-winged Stilt” because their faces are white; however, if someone with more bird-identification authority than I have thinks they are “Black-necked Stilts”, I’m easily persuaded. They are wonderfully elegant and ‘stilty’, regardless!
They are lovely, the stilts especially. They look so dainty.
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Not only dainty, but they make a little chirping/peeping sound. I’d never seen the stilts before, but was quite taken.
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Where did you see them?
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In a sort of bay of the Parramatta River. I did a walk from Abbotsford ferry wharf along the shore, which is not an area of Sydney I’d ever been to. The water in the bay was almost flat, with many mangroves and mud flats. And birds!
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I recall taking a ferry up the Parramatta River to Parramatta itself one rather rainy day in Sydney on my first visit back in 1998. But like you I have not really explored it since. I see there are a lot of ferry points along the river, are you going to explore others?
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I’d say my exploring depends on what sort of walking there is near each wharf. If there’s only residential streets, probably not! But I shall look into it. More “staycations” coming. 😉
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Some residential streets might be interesting, I enjoyed exploring Manly and the heritage buildings.
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Good point!
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These are fantastic. Your stilts, pelican and gulls look similar to ours. I’m glad you snuck this in. I will add it to the round up from last week. If you participate in Bird Weekly this week, Sarah from Travel with Me is doing it. You can find her link on the Bird Weekly page of my blog. I”m having foot surgery on Thursday. I’ve had a lot of prep this week to get ready for it and she graciously took the reigns. 🙂
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Oh dear, good luck with the surgery! I’ll bet that has a long recovery, hobbling around for ages. 😦
I did see that you have a guest host, when I went to your site and grabbed the updated themes.
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Yeah, 8-12 weeks. I’m going to pick up my knee cart shortly. I’ll have wheels and no crutches. I have a temp handicap decal for the car so when I do get better but not quite around, I can go to the store. Frank driving of course. I won’t be able to drive for at least 8 weeks because it is my right foot and we drive on that foot here in the US. LOL! I’m glad you saw the update. I’ll be looking for all of your posts too once I get out of my fog. 🙂
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I just found this comment, Lisa. Wow, knee cart and everything! Best wishes for the whole thing going smoothly.
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Thanks! Yeah, it is slow getting around. I’m off the painkillers and trying to get back to some sort of life but I’m tired a lot still. Surgery went well though. 🙂
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Oh I’m pleased to hear that. 🙂 I hope the recovery is speedy.
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Thanks! We will see. I’m still having shock waves in my foot. Stitches come out on Tuesday so I hope by then, some of that pain has slowed down. 😊
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ooh, sounds unpleasant. 😦
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Not exactly fun but I hope to be pain free in a few weeks and can get back to nature. 😊
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Great capture 😃
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The birds were very good about posing so nicely. 😉
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