Recent photos – June 2010
Here are some (mostly) recent photos. Where appropriate I’ve added them to other galleries on the site. Hope you enjoy them!
ALICE SPRINGS DESERT PARK – IMAGES FROM THE NOCTURNAL HOUSE AND A NOCTURNAL TOUR OF AN OUTDOOR ENCLOSURE
The Alice Springs Desert Park, one of our all-time favourite places, has breeding programs for a number of our endangered species. For us, being able to see these rare and beautiful creatures at close quarters has been an absolute privilege. As the names suggest, these enclosures are dark, and flash photography isn’t allowed. As a result, these images aren’t exactly perfect but I hope they give an impression of the conditions in which you might see one of these animals in the wild.
MORE BIRDS
I promise to publish another post soon without any birds! Until then, here are a few more:
NATIVE FLOWERS ALONG THE HIGHWAY
I went for a stroll recently on a sunny afternoon and was astonished to see so many native shrubs in flower. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised because even though the nights here are now cold, the days are warm and the local environment is still making the most of heavy rains earlier this year.
EVEN MORE BIRDS
During our travels around Australia we have seen the strikingly marked Black Fronted Dotterel on a number of occasions. It lives along river courses and is just as happy running along the sandy river-banks as it is flying. It is a nervous little bird, and I had never managed to get any decent photos of it until recently, at Trephina Gorge in the East MacDonnell Ranges. On the same day I also saw some Grey Shrike Thrushes - a bird we have rarely seen.
