Thanks so much for all your lovely comments and favs for my koala photo yesterday. Sorry I haven't had chance to get back to you all yet, but I have been out most of the day.
I took a friend out shopping and for a coffee this morning while David took her husband to a hospital appointment in Newcastle.
Later I had a doctors appointment to get the results of my recent surgery and David and I are out this evening. It has been a long day.
This is another photo taken yesterday. It was a bit like an episode of a David Attenborough show yesterday here. Not only did we have the koala in the garden, we also had a feral rabbit digging up our front lawn, the regular kookaburras visiting waiting to be fed. Plus our regular lorikeets and butcher birds wanting to be fed too.
The blue tongue lizard who has been hibernating under our log shed woke up and had stroll around the garden too.
While I was photographing the koala yesterday, I noticed three possum dreys in three of our trees. Two dreys I know are abandoned, but not so sure about the third one. David spotted a ring tailed possum in the garden a few days ago so maybe the third drey is occupied.
As I said I am out this evening so won't be able to catch up until tomorrow.
Hope your results were what you wanted? This is a gorgeous Kookaburra - love the catchlight in his eye. Such fun and beautiful birds. If I close my eyes, I can hear him laugh!
Just a beautiful bird, love your capture of him. You have a wildlife menagerie it seems, or maybe your own private zoo! I sure like this little fellow.
@hermann The rabbits are quite cute Sal as long as they stay outside our garden. They have been quite a problem close to the beach and have been digging holes on the dunes, but some have escaped up the hill to our house.
@cruiser@carole_sandford@s4sayer@casablanca@happypat@helenhall thanks. Our resident kookaburras are so tame.
Surgery went not according to plan because the locum surgeon who dealt with it all didn't have all the previous test results etc to hand (according to him that is). (My surgeon is away until September) All my medical history is on the system and I have spent the day obtaining copies of the results, getting x rays and test results on cd and collecting the results of the reports relevant to this particular surgery so I can take them along to the hospital when I next go in a couple of weeks time. I suspect the surgeon made a real balls up of the whole procedure, so he is going to get a mouthful from me when I see him. The rest of the hospital staff including the nurses etc have all been so helpful in giving me the information I need.
Babs, it sounds like you live in a nature reserve.. i cannot imagine how that would be.. words sometimes fail..
This particular image is, imho, superb.. the detail in the eye and feather is quite phenomenal. i never knew their beaks are so colourful.. i like the PoV, instead of the usual straight on shot, it gives a view of the top of the bird's head, downward..
How horrid for you to need to deal with this debacle.. sending hugs..
@onewing thank goodness you have got al your details Babs! You did well but shouldn't have had to go through all that! Sharpen your tongue for September!
Surgery went not according to plan because the locum surgeon who dealt with it all didn't have all the previous test results etc to hand (according to him that is). (My surgeon is away until September) All my medical history is on the system and I have spent the day obtaining copies of the results, getting x rays and test results on cd and collecting the results of the reports relevant to this particular surgery so I can take them along to the hospital when I next go in a couple of weeks time. I suspect the surgeon made a real balls up of the whole procedure, so he is going to get a mouthful from me when I see him. The rest of the hospital staff including the nurses etc have all been so helpful in giving me the information I need.
This particular image is, imho, superb.. the detail in the eye and feather is quite phenomenal. i never knew their beaks are so colourful.. i like the PoV, instead of the usual straight on shot, it gives a view of the top of the bird's head, downward..
How horrid for you to need to deal with this debacle.. sending hugs..