AT LAST!

I finally found the cord for the camera to download stuff onto my computer, so now everyone can see this year's black swan. Isn't it lovely to look at? We're not sure if it is male or female, we have no way of knowing. Maybe there are two that we only see one at a time. If they have a nest, that is possible. They eat lots of weed in the lake so I bet the ducks don't love it, but goose thinks it is good company, I think goose likes the size of it, bigger than the ducks. Ducks become little nothings in the goose's mind when it sees the swan. It swims after the swan and keeps it company for a while. But they talk different languages: the goose goes "honk honk" and the swan says "hoom hoom". Yes, we heard the cob last year making a deep "hoom" noise to the female. So they are not mute.

CREATURES

So, when you go to the zoo, there is always a favourite animal you must see, and for us it is the meerkats.
Ok, don't forget to click on it to see it bigger! Isn't it the sweetest looking creature even if they wouldn't be if you tried to pick one up. I can imagine how ripped-to-shreds your hand would be!

More On Ducky Wagtail

The next day as we walked past, we saw him fly out of the water to visit someone, so we called "ducky ducky ducky," and he came running up a hill to see us, so we gave hi a little treat and he wandered back to the water for a drink. He is so cute, he makes tiny little noises at us for the food and also as he eats it.

Lost Duck Found

We thought our favourite duck had disappeared forever, but he showed up again yesterday morning. He is rather fat, so I doubt he flies away. I think he hides in the thick bushes until the day is cooler. We found him again when the day was lovely and cool in the morning.

Older Pictures of creatures

I don't know about you, but it seems to me this fish has a distinct face, with eyebrow ridges and a nose. It looks like something was turned into a fish. Strange, but you can see how stories start.
Below are goose,beauty duck and ducky wagstail

Is this a flying penguin? Or is it just a cormorant?


















And this is cute duck!

Here are our favourite swans from last year. Do click on all the pictures to get a huge view, especially of the cygnets. One is back as an adult we are sure.
Do you notice that two of the cygnets have a leg out of the water? All the swans did it, I think it is to warm the leg up, as they hardly come out of the water and it was very cold. Also the water is very shallow, it is only about 50cm deep, if that.

This is to keep everyone happy until I get the camera online again, and I can show you fresh pictures.

Bother2

Yes, I am still having picture problems. My niece put my photos onto a disc, but her computer decided to make it a DVD disc, and my computer says it can't read it. Alas, I better get a new wire. There is no hole to insert the memory card out of the camera, either. So it's off shopping on Monday.

Bother!

I have lost the wire that connects my camera to the computer that I use when I want to transfer the pictures.

Revisions

I have just spent a while revising what I will be recording in my blogs, as being new to it all, I wasn't certain at first what I would want to put in. I hope I have worked it out now, and I hope it is interesting to you.

Last year's cob.Do you Notice his lovely curly feathers?

Wow, What a Long Time It's been!

I am finally back on line and I have some wonderful news! A black swan has returned to the park and is friends with the goose. I will get a picture up of it as soon as I can. We were just wondering about if they would return and there it was. How wonderful to have a large native bird like that in the middle of the city! It's a good thing there are parks.
One of the ducks, a Muscovy, we call our pet as it comes when we call it {actually all the little native teals also come, as they know it means food}. It wags its tail at us and gives little squeaky noises, never a quack. It says thank you when ever we feed it: yes, it makes a little squeak as it goes for it's first mouthful, and so does the goose. The swan is making peeps, which makes me think it is one of last year's cygnets returned to see if the food is still being handed out by humans. It is quite human friendly, though all the birds here have to watch out for dogs, they also don't like to be touched so they are not tame.
Last year we found out that swans are not mute they make a very deep hooting noise like an emu almost. We only heard the male hoot. The female quacked once. The cygnets peeped like little tiny chicks even when they were almost as large as the parent swans.