Our Time Spent At Mann River Nature Reserve

Kookaburra and I camped at Mann River Nature Reserve just before we headed off for our travels. We had a very relaxing time of just watching the birds and listing to the river gurgle past

There were quite a few birds but the ones that kept coming back and never leaving were the Jacky Winter Birds

We could almost never catch them flying 

They would rest on the posts then zoom of when we thought we were ready

They did have a few favorite post they liked to rest on and I tried waiting for them to fly to one but every time they just flew to a different one

I would then switch posts and of course they would then pick the post I had just left

They were always content to just sit there when you wanted to get a shot of them flying

Then whenever you wanted to get them all nicely sitting together at least one of them, if not all decided they wanted to fly

We spent quite a lot of time taking pictures of those birds

So much time that we always got really excited when a different bird came along

Even when it was a bird we'd seen a hundred times at home before

Although I rarely take photos of them so it was great that they decided to visit

It was cloudy the whole time we were there 

We couldn't figure out if it was always cloudy

Or just while we were there they had a run of bad weather

In amongst all our bird watching we did get in a lot of reading

 

There's nothing more peaceful then reading in amongst nature

But then of course we went back to bird watching

The Willy Wag Tail was a frequent visitor but was often over looked because of the Jacky Winter's constant movement 

Another one to join us was the Magpie 

Unfortunately I didn't give him the attention he deserved as I see them too commonly to be amazed by them

And finally we have the Crimson Rosellas they never got close and I think I only saw them the once